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Climate ChangeNovember 15, 2018
The Fire This Time
California’s Camp Fire is a reckoning, an alarm shrieking that our leaders won’t save us from climate change—but perhaps we can.
Ben Ehrenreich
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December 24, 2017
Ahed Tamimi Has Become the Symbol of a New Generation of Palestinian Resistance
It would be far better, however, if she could just be a child.
Ben Ehrenreich
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FictionSeptember 7, 2016
Antoine Volodine’s Army of Avatars
Is there any other writer whose work is as strange and hermetic and gloriously, painfully appropriate to the unparalleled shittiness of our times?
Ben Ehrenreich
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May 25, 2016
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FictionFebruary 4, 2016
Vladimir Sorokin’s Absurdist Excess
Even the Russian author’s most sincere explorations tend toward brutal deadpan satire, cartoonish extremes of violence, comically unsexy sex, and flatulence.
Ben Ehrenreich
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October 1, 2015
Literature as Map to Liberty
In John Keene’s ambitious new volume of stories, resistance is required because exile isn’t an option.
Ben Ehrenreich
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FictionApril 30, 2014
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Autobiography and MemoirFebruary 5, 2013
Making Strange: On Victor Shklovsky
A Russian novelist’s fight, in life and art, to see the world afresh in all its cruelty and splendor.
Ben Ehrenreich
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CultureMay 16, 2012
The Ravaging Nothing: On László Krasznahorkai
Satantango will devour you, you and everything you know.
Ben Ehrenreich
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CultureDecember 6, 2011
Eels Über Alles: On Julio Cortázar
A novelist’s lyrical attempt to measure the immeasurable.
Ben Ehrenreich