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FictionJuly 13, 2022
Tove Ditlevsen’s Unsentimental Education
The Danish novelist and poet was a rare writer—one who shunned sentiment but not empathy in her stories.
Lily Meyer
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FictionFebruary 24, 2022
The Enigma of Roberto Bolaño
David Kurnick’s new book reappraises the Chilean writer, clarifying the preconceptions and myths that haunted his earliest work.
Lily Meyer
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Latin AmericaOctober 29, 2021
The Moral and Magical Political Fictions of Carolina de Robertis
The Uruguayan American novelist’s The President and the Frog asks us to consider: What does it mean to be a good political actor?
Lily Meyer
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FictionMay 13, 2021
The Mundane and Alienated Life of a Freelancer
Kavita Bedford’s novel Friends and Dark Shapes explores the false promises and precarity of writing in the age of the gig economy.
Lily Meyer
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