Essays José Donoso Saw the Future of Latin American Literature Zachary Issenberg - 11.21.2023 American readers have largely forgotten the single greatest writer to come from the Latin American Boom: Chilean novelist José Donoso. Zachary Issenberg - 11.21.2023
Reviews Play and Rules: On Megan Fernandes and the Poetics of Kink Ann Marie Jakubowski - 11.21.2023 The poems of 'I Do Everything I’m Told' pursue an ever more perfect mode of submission. Ann Marie Jakubowski - 11.21.2023
Reviews The Searing Clarity of Hilary Mantel Michael O'Donnell - 11.20.2023 Mantel the essayist was eager for ideas, light on her feet, yet sharp as a raptor. Michael O'Donnell - 11.20.2023
Essays The Sublime Poetics of Linda Gregg Afton Montgomery - 11.16.2023 Linda Gregg was looking to model truth, that finicky thing impossible to hold in its entirety. Afton Montgomery - 11.16.2023
Person to Person Imprisoned for His Writing, Ahmed Naji Found Freedom in Literature Mona Kareem - 11.15.2023 "My aim is to provoke thought, prompting people to address lingering questions about the purpose of imprisonment." Mona Kareem - 11.15.2023
Person to Person Thurston Moore Looks Back on 30 Years of Sonic Youth Richard Klin - 11.14.2023 "I’ve always been very engaged with literature, but it's never had the profile of what I do with music, obviously." Richard Klin - 11.14.2023
Essays Reviews Éric Vuillard Is Rewriting the Writing of History Bill Morris - 11.13.2023 Vuillard doesn’t attempt to hide the fact that his quest for murky truths sometimes forces him to speculate. Bill Morris - 11.13.2023
Person to Person The Epistolary Friendship of a Writer and Her Translator Jazmina Barrera and Christina MacSweeney - 11.10.2023 Jazmina Barrera and Christina MacSweeney trade letters on friendship, translation, and their new novel 'Cross-Stitch.' Jazmina Barrera and Christina MacSweeney - 11.10.2023
Essays The Book that Made the Bard: 400 Years of Shakespeare’s Folio Florence Hazrat - 11.8.2023 The Folio is our gateway to Shakespeare; it's also a cautionary tale. Florence Hazrat - 11.8.2023
Essays How the World’s Most Famous Book Was Made Tanya Kirk - 11.8.2023 The creation of Shakespeare's Folio was not straightforward, and the people who compiled it had their own aims with its publication. Tanya Kirk - 11.8.2023
Essays The Miracle of Photography Ed Simon - 11.2.2023 The invention of photography, less than 200 years old, seems both strangely recent and perilously distant. Ed Simon - 11.2.2023
Person to Person Molly McGhee Wants to Rethink the Way We Work Eric Olson - 11.1.2023 "When you have to work to be alive, at what point is the work you do harmful to others?" Eric Olson - 11.1.2023
Reviews Alissa Hattman’s ‘Sift’ Is a Post-Apocalyptic Prophecy Sarah Boon - 10.31.2023 'Sift' is a remarkable entry in the rich climate-change canon that already exists within the genre of speculative fiction. Sarah Boon - 10.31.2023
Reviews Marie Darrieussecq Plumbs the Depths of ‘Sleepless’ Nights Marek Makowski - 10.30.2023 'Sleepless' might be one of the few original interventions on the topic of insomnia in the past 15 years. Marek Makowski - 10.30.2023
Person to Person Yiyun Li Doesn’t Use the Word ‘Grief’ Mengyin Lin - 10.27.2023 "I write about something opposite of grief, about holding onto things, living on with sorrows, pains, or suffering." Mengyin Lin - 10.27.2023
Person to Person Why ‘The Exorcist’ Still Haunts Us 50 Years Later Ryan Coleman - 10.26.2023 "Society lost its mind about this imperiled little white girl." Ryan Coleman - 10.26.2023
Reviews The Detached Drama of ‘Lazy City’ Gideon Leek - 10.25.2023 What does it mean to suffer when your pain is played out? Gideon Leek - 10.25.2023
Lists Roving Ramblers Make the Best Protagonists Eskor David Johnson - 10.24.2023 Fast-talking, ever-moving protagonists take us on strange, unpredictable rides by way of their fidgety feet and hyperactive minds. Eskor David Johnson - 10.24.2023