Delmore’s Way Delmore’s Way
How the stormy eloquence of Delmore Schwartz made possible the glittering prose of Saul Bellow.
Jun 2, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
Against the Barricades Against the Barricades
Exposing the debasement of language in service to ideologies was Renata Adler’s cause.
May 27, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Katie Ryder
Entering the Mind of My Rapist: An Exercise in Extreme Empathy Entering the Mind of My Rapist: An Exercise in Extreme Empathy
What would it be like, I suddenly wondered, to put myself in the head of my rapist?
May 13, 2015 / Feature / Deborah Copaken Kogan
Sufferahs Sufferahs
Marlon James’s characters are caught in “the shitstem,” eternally waiting for something to change.
May 12, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Thier
Diminishing Returns Diminishing Returns
The writings of Tom McCarthy are a case study in the application of theory to fiction.
May 12, 2015 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz
The Old Consciousness The Old Consciousness
Hilary Mantel and Penelope Fitzgerald have saved historical fiction from a middlebrow wasteland.
Apr 22, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Leo Robson
Shelf Life Shelf Life
In Nell Zink’s The Wallcreeper, biology fails to determine anything at all.
Apr 14, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold
A Q&A With Marilynne Robinson A Q&A With Marilynne Robinson
The novelist discusses religion, history, language and the importance of moral scrutiny.
Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts
Dhaka Stories Dhaka Stories
K. Anis Ahmed’s stringent tales of life in the sprawling capital of Bangladesh.
Feb 25, 2015 / Books & the Arts / André Naffis-Sahely
February 14, 1989: Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran Issues a Fatwa Calling for the Murder of Salman Rushdie February 14, 1989: Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran Issues a Fatwa Calling for the Murder of Salman Rushdie
In The Nation, Christopher Hitchens called the episode ”a moment of education to fix in the mind.”
Feb 14, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac