Claire Messud’s Remarkable Experiment in Historical Fiction Claire Messud’s Remarkable Experiment in Historical Fiction
Chronicling a pied-noir family across generations and continents, she examines the moral and political responsibilities a novelist owes their kin and their readers.
May 22, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Lily Meyer
The Radical World-making of Joanna Russ The Radical World-making of Joanna Russ
In her science fiction, the novelist offered not only an astringent critiques of the present but also bold visions of the future.
May 13, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Stephanie Burt
Vinson Cunningham’s Searching Novel of Faith and Politics Vinson Cunningham’s Searching Novel of Faith and Politics
In Great Expectations, Cunningham examines the hope and aspirations of the Obama generation.
May 8, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Tope Folarin
Gabriel García Márquez’s Last Lesson Gabriel García Márquez’s Last Lesson
His final novel, Until August, serves as not only a record of his last struggles with illness but also as a document of courage.
May 7, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Nicolás Medina Mora
Data, Desire, and Where Fiction Goes Next Data, Desire, and Where Fiction Goes Next
The Nation speaks to Jessi Jezewska Stevens about her new short-story collection, which dramatizes late-capitalist living.
Apr 24, 2024 / Q&A / Rose D’Amora
Bringing a Seminal Palestinian Resistance Novel to the World Bringing a Seminal Palestinian Resistance Novel to the World
Talking with the translators of Wissam Rafeedie's The Trinity of Fundamentals, a book whose genesis is as extraordinary as its contents.
Apr 19, 2024 / Q&A / Rayan El Amine
The Mexican Conquest: A Story Told in the Conditional Tense The Mexican Conquest: A Story Told in the Conditional Tense
Restaging the meeting between Moctezuma and Hernán Cortés, Álvaro Enrigue’s You Dreamed of Empires explores how little we still know about this moment in history.
Apr 4, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Lucas Iberico Lozada
Olga Ravn’s Novel of Parenting and Its Discontents Olga Ravn’s Novel of Parenting and Its Discontents
In My Work, the novelist examines the trials and tribulations of being a mother.
Apr 2, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Jess Cotton
The Many Faces of Viet Thanh Nguyen The Many Faces of Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Vietnamese American writer’s leap to the mainstream comes at a moment that demands his anti-colonialist perspective.
Mar 25, 2024 / Feature / Mari Uyehara
At Mathias Énard’s Table At Mathias Énard’s Table
Set between the 16th and 22nd centuries, The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild is a work of political comedy, fixated on class, climate, food, wine, and the afterlife.
Mar 25, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Dustin Illingworth