Helen Garner’s Alienating Domesticity Helen Garner’s Alienating Domesticity
In her novel The Children’s Bach, the Australian writer conjures a relentless portrait of the comforts and restrictions of family life.
Feb 12, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Isabella Trimboli
The Many Lives of George Eliot The Many Lives of George Eliot
A new biography examines how the novelist chose to make her life, as well as her fiction and art, outside the conventions of the marriage plot.
Feb 8, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Francesca Wade
In the Streets of Rome With Pier Paolo Pasolini In the Streets of Rome With Pier Paolo Pasolini
His bracing debut novel, Boys Alive, documents the hard and loose lives of vagabonds in the Italian capital’s underbelly.
Feb 7, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Jack Hanson
And the Winner Is... Annie Lennox and Artists for Cease-Fire And the Winner Is... Annie Lennox and Artists for Cease-Fire
The singer’s call for an end to the killing in Gaza politicized the Grammys, which is fantastic.
Feb 6, 2024 / John Nichols
Has Cuba Met the End of History? Has Cuba Met the End of History?
In Cubanthropy, the critic Iván de la Nuez traces how the island nation and its diaspora shoulder the legacy of the revolution.
Feb 6, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Miriam Pensack
Taylor Swift May Yet Save Joe Biden Taylor Swift May Yet Save Joe Biden
Attacks on the popular singer help highlight the sheer weirdness of Trump’s GOP.
Feb 5, 2024 / Jeet Heer
The Party of Lincoln Is Really the Party of Calhoun The Party of Lincoln Is Really the Party of Calhoun
Nikki Haley and Greg Abbott echo the theorist of secession.
Feb 2, 2024 / Jeet Heer
Is Derek Penslar the Wrong Kind of Jew for Harvard? Is Derek Penslar the Wrong Kind of Jew for Harvard?
He’s a distinguished scholar, director of Harvard’s Center for Jewish Studies, and former president of the American Academy for Jewish Research. But Bill Ackman doesn’t like him.
Feb 2, 2024 / Eric Alterman
Taylor Swift, Enemy of the People Taylor Swift, Enemy of the People
The MAGA movement—including the big man himself—has gone on the offensive against the megastar pop singer.
Feb 1, 2024 / Chris Lehmann
Juan Rulfo’s Revolution in Mexican Fiction Juan Rulfo’s Revolution in Mexican Fiction
In his 1955 masterpiece Pedro Páramo, he gave the bloody history of his country—between the rich and poor, landed and landless—mythic dimension.
Feb 1, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Ratik Asokan