Books
Ilan Stavans’ latest book is an engrossing potpourri of this thinker’s continuing thoughts about language, culture, and the self.
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.
The twelve stories in this collection are set in radically different places, use multiple forms, and reflect varying levels of political engagement.
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.
In all of his books, John Julius Norwich remembered that history is a story.
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.
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.
While Beth Genné proffers a terrific take on dance and its social context, she exhibits a shaky grasp of musical-theater history.
Deborah Eisenberg’s stories pull you in and imitate life in an uncanny way.
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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