Literature as Map to Liberty Literature as Map to Liberty
In John Keene’s ambitious new volume of stories, resistance is required because exile isn’t an option.
Oct 1, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Ben Ehrenreich
A Stage Across the Sea A Stage Across the Sea
An unjustly-neglected Libyan novelist captured the twisted logic of colonialism, past and present.
Oct 1, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Ursula Lindsey
September 26, 1888: T.S. Eliot Is Born September 26, 1888: T.S. Eliot Is Born
“Even the creative imagination, hallucination and vision have atrophied, so that water shall never again be struck from a rock in the desert.”
Sep 26, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
Romancing the Remains Romancing the Remains
A tubercular Surrealist describes his convalescence. What could go right?
Sep 24, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Ricky D’Ambrose
Conditions of Emergence: On Elena Ferrante Conditions of Emergence: On Elena Ferrante
In the pseudonymous author’s Neapolitan Novels, the price of leaving Naples is that you can never be at home again.
Sep 24, 2015 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz
Divided Affections Divided Affections
One writer’s fight against traditions that stifle women in Pakistan.
Sep 10, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Muhammad Idrees Ahmad
Letters From the September 28–October 5, 2015, Issue Letters From the September 28–October 5, 2015, Issue
Ishmael Reed on life in the Major League; Scott Walker as Nixon’s protégé…
Sep 10, 2015 / Our Readers and Jesse McCarthy
The Unfathomable Sadness The Unfathomable Sadness
Miriam Toews writes about death and mental illness without sentimentality or sweeping platitudes.
Sep 10, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Lauren Oyler
The Flow of Life The Flow of Life
Is Saul Bellow the central American novelist since Willa Cather and William Faulkner?
Sep 10, 2015 / Books & the Arts / David Mikics
September 10, 1885: Carl Van Doren Is Born September 10, 1885: Carl Van Doren Is Born
“He has labored untiringly to dig the weeds out of the annals of American fiction.”
Sep 10, 2015 / Richard Kreitner