Books
Claire Tomalin narrates her story with a prototypically English stiff upper lip, and a reticence about the personal.
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The strength of The Mars Room is its compelling vision of the stultifying and claustrophobic underworld of women in prison.
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Ilan Stavans’ latest book is an engrossing potpourri of this thinker’s continuing thoughts about language, culture, and the self.
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One of the few books that examine the largest mass killing of gays and lesbians in the United States until the 2016 massacre at Pulse.
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The twelve stories in this collection are set in radically different places, use multiple forms, and reflect varying levels of political engagement.
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There can be no future, Héctor Abad seems to be arguing, when everything you are is hidden away in a time you can never fully know.
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In all of his books, John Julius Norwich remembered that history is a story.
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One of the fears of poets and, I imagine, all writers, is that you’ll reach a certain age and you’ll run out of gas.
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If Charlie Harmon’s story jumps around a bit and reads rather like a series of diary entries, it’s at the very least engaging and, for the most part, entertaining.
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Book Commentary: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “Why I Write” — Incomplete Answer
The old questions, good as they are, are going to be augmented with new ones: Are we creating a world worth living in? Are we creating a world we can continue to live in?
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