Tag: literature

Columns

Sure as Fate

Sophie Haigney

October 22, 2020

Uncertainty and destiny in the writings of Marilynne Robinson.

Memoirs from Beyond the Grave

Lorna Scott Fox

September 14, 2020

Two new translations of a Brazilian Classic.

Mirror on Mirror

Stephanie Burt

July 27, 2020

Two parallel women, millennia apart, whose carefully acquired beauty made them patriarchy’s ideal targets.

Scold Habits Die Hard

Rafia Zakaria

May 29, 2020

On Lionel Shriver’s stale contrarian schtick.

Gatsbys of Our Time

Matt Hanson

May 18, 2020

On Fitzgerald’s novel and eternal American myths.

The Part About the Crimes

Will Noah

May 11, 2020

Fernanda Melchor's scorching novel of femicide.

Fine Print

Bradley Babendir

May 08, 2020

Writing about reading, outside of the publishing industry’s hype cycle.

Crimes of Passion

Becca Rothfeld

April 23, 2020

The violent imagination of Heinrich von Kleist.

Homage to Albert Murray

Clifford Thompson

April 08, 2020

Reflections on the fifteenth anniversary of The Omni-Americans.

Robert the Late Modernist

Daniel Felsenthal

March 23, 2020

On Robert Glück and the New Narrative’s lost utopia.

Glass Girl

Philippa Snow

February 26, 2020

On Anna Kavan’s stories of disintegration.

Pod Save Antarctica

Emma Hager

February 06, 2020

In Weather, Jenny Offill tackles the Anthropocene.