Why Bill Weld’s Political Heresy Matters Why Bill Weld’s Political Heresy Matters
The Libertarian Party’s veep nominee has been making the case for Clinton—and reading George Orwell.
Nov 4, 2016 / John Nichols
The Essential Ferrante The Essential Ferrante
How the Italian novelist’s demand to remain anonymous reveals her true identity.
Nov 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
Zadie Smith’s Liberal Imagination Zadie Smith’s Liberal Imagination
Once reveling in the hopes and possibilities of a multicultural society, her fiction now has taken on a more despairing outlook.
Nov 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Adam Kirsch
Baby Hamlet Baby Hamlet
Ian McEwan’s latest novel returns to a recurring theme—the breakup of the modern family.
Nov 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Joanna Biggs
Letters From the November 14, 2016, Issue Letters From the November 14, 2016, Issue
The art of words… Words are her matter… Live by shame, die by shame… Carré’d away…
Oct 27, 2016 / Our Readers
5 Novels About the Sordid Lives of High-Minded People 5 Novels About the Sordid Lives of High-Minded People
Zetigeist literature that prefigures the Brat Pack.
Oct 13, 2016 / Michelle Dean
The Brat Pack Grows Up The Brat Pack Grows Up
Once the voice of youthful dissatisfaction, Jay McInerney, Tama Janowitz, and Bret Easton Ellis experience the growing pains of middle age.
Oct 12, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Michelle Dean
Le Carré’s Other Cold War Le Carré’s Other Cold War
The wonder and rage the English novelist felt toward his own country.
Oct 5, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Ian Buruma
Ursula Le Guin Has Stopped Writing Fiction—but We Need Her More Than Ever Ursula Le Guin Has Stopped Writing Fiction—but We Need Her More Than Ever
The author on sexism, aging, and the radical possibilities of imaginative story telling.
Oct 5, 2016 / Feature / Zoë Carpenter
Leopoldine Core’s Concrete Jungle Leopoldine Core’s Concrete Jungle
In her new collection, Core evidences a serious concern not just with what happens in a story, but also where it occurs.
Sep 30, 2016 / Alina Cohen