Vivian Gornick in Reverse

A conversation with the writer about her life and work.

Hannah Gold

Back When

Feels like a million years ago.

Peter Kuper

The Worlds of Edward Said

An exile who made the world his home, Said infused his literary style with a cosmopolitan ease and his political commitments with a cosmopolitan ethics.

Rashid Khalidi

The Tangled History of Illness and Idiocy

The pandemic is stress-testing two concepts Americans have historically gotten wrong.

Jessi Jezewska Stevens

Peter Handke’s Nobel Condones Violence

One of Sweden’s most important authors on how the Swedish Academy abuses its platform—and the intelligentsia lets it happen.

Johannes Anyuru

L’État, C’est Moi

Calvin Trillin

Carlos Bulosan’s 1946 Novel About Filipino Migrant Workers Is Still Groundbreaking

When we read a book like America Is in the Heart, we have the chance to be not just readers of American history’s horrors, but its witnesses and inheritors.

Elaine Castillo

Rediscovering Nelson Algren

The literary giant’s unique resonance in our anti-capitalist moment.

Dan Simon

Hunting for Lions and Liberation

Rachel Ingalls’s 1983 novel Binstead’s Safari is a fable-like account of the price of feminism and the freedom from domesticity.

Maya Binyam

A Style Guide for the 1 Percent

The new grammar and usage handbook by Benjamin Dreyer, Twitter’s premier grammarian, reinforces an elitist view of writing and language.

Kyle Paoletta