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FictionAugust 3, 2021
The Fiction of Meaningful Work
Kikuko Tsumura’s new novel examines what unites jobs good or bad: the stories we tell ourselves to cope with how much toil sucks in the first place.
Marie Solis
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Autobiography and MemoirMay 6, 2021
The Brutal Transcendence of Tove Ditlevsen
By resisting all of memoir’s conventions, the Danish writer tells the story of her life more painfully and beautifully.
Marie Solis
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Internet and New MediaOctober 13, 2020
One Weird Trick for Destroying the Digital Economy
Tim Hwang thinks we should burst the bubble of the ad-supported internet before it’s too late.
Marie Solis
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CultureJuly 30, 2020
The Biography That Reimagined a Life—and the Genre
Diane Johnson’s The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives uses speculation and fabulation to correct the biases of history.
Marie Solis
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Books and IdeasAugust 15, 2019
Heterosexual and Miserable
Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women, a sprawling sexual biography of a trio of women, is the latest flawed attempt to chronicle the country’s changing mores.
Marie Solis
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BiographyFebruary 8, 2019
Eve Babitz’s Visions of Total Freedom
A new biography of the legendary Los Angeles socialite tries to crack the code of her writing’s allure.
Marie Solis