The Magic of Helen DeWitt The Magic of Helen DeWitt
In the world of Some Trick, the best words are so acute they lacerate.
Oct 11, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Becca Rothfeld
Who Owns Kafka? Who Owns Kafka?
The complicated legacy of the writer’s estate.
Oct 3, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Evan Kindley
Ling Ma’s Disaster Fiction Ling Ma’s Disaster Fiction
Part sci-fi thriller, part genre-fiction, Severance follows a millennial New Yorker’s struggle to survive.
Oct 2, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Larissa Pham
Rachel Cusk’s Struggle to Break Free Rachel Cusk’s Struggle to Break Free
In her Outline trilogy, the English novelist finds a freedom in art that she cannot locate in life.
Sep 27, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Maggie Doherty
Tangled in the Garden of Good and Evil Tangled in the Garden of Good and Evil
A French television program tackles the tough questions of compliance and resistance.
Sep 4, 2018 / Norman Solomon
The World of Eduardo Galeano The World of Eduardo Galeano
The writer's radical commitments made him an intimate witness to many of the major turning points in Latin American politics over the last 75 years.
Aug 16, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Mark Engler
Aline Kominsky-Crumb’s Radical Honesty Aline Kominsky-Crumb’s Radical Honesty
In her books, the cartoonist constantly reworks the raw materials of her life.
Jul 19, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Jillian Steinhauer
The Death of Philip Roth’s ‘Lox and Bagels’ Judaism The Death of Philip Roth’s ‘Lox and Bagels’ Judaism
The novelist’s life tracked the rise and fall of a golden age of secular American Jewry.
Jun 20, 2018 / Column / Eric Alterman
‘Call Me a Refugee, Not an Immigrant’: Viet Thanh Nguyen ‘Call Me a Refugee, Not an Immigrant’: Viet Thanh Nguyen
The novelist on refugee literature and the concept of the “genius.”
Jun 11, 2018 / Jon Wiener
