Books
Brian Phillips uses the essay form to map the limits of America’s cultural-historical imagination, from our highest achievements to our kitschiest expressions of who we think we are, and who we think everyone else is.
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Whether through disregard, willful ignorance, or strategic elimination, Michael Lewis gives us a glimpse of how parts of the government are being hollowed out.
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In his exhilarating translation of Pan Tadeusz, Bill Johnston captures Adam Mickiewicz’s wild fluctuations of register and brilliant associative riffs. The volume recently won the 2019 National Translation Award in Poetry.
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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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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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