Vivian Gornick | The Nation

The soul-destroying weariness in A.B. Yehoshua’s stories seems as old as time itself—and unique to contemporary Israel.

On a Farther Shore captures the conservationist’s deep sense of geologic time and the forces of evolution.

A nineteenth-century feminist's exceptional life.

This is the second time in living memory that an American movement protesting social injustice has embraced her.

Jonathan Raban has made a persona out of the self that feels nowhere at home.

Rosa Luxemburg wanted it all: books and music, sex and art, evening walks and the revolution. Her lover, Leo Jogiches, told her this was nonsense.

Isaac B. Singer: A Life fails to fully illustrate the complexity of the writer's struggle with his heritage.

Andrew Delbanco's new biography of Herman Melville reveals that the
great writer came to realize that what torments men is not the longing
to believe that there is meaning in the universe, but that behind the
longing lies fear of nothingness.