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Liesl Schillinger

Liesl Schillinger
Liesl Schillinger is a New York–based critic, translator, and educator. She grew up in Midwestern college towns, studied comparative literature at Yale, worked at The New Yorker for more than a decade and became a regular critic for The New York Times Book Review in 2004. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, New York, Vogue, The London Independent on Sunday, The New Republic, and many other publications. Her recent translations include the novels Every Day, Every Hour, by Natasa Dragnic (Viking, 2012), The Lady of the Camellias, by Alexandre Dumas (Penguin Classics, 2013), and Free Day, by Inès Cagnati (New York Review Books, 2019).


A Dark Day in the Capitol: Donald Trump Calls For Insurrection

Liesl Schillinger on The Magnet and The Megaphone
January 7, 2021  By Liesl Schillinger
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From Napoleon to Trump, on the
Tyrant As Troll

Liesl Schillinger Considers the Ways in Which History Repeats
October 15, 2020  By Liesl Schillinger
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Staring At Ourselves: On the Endless Mirrors of Pandemic Life

Liesl Schillinger Wonders What Lockdown Has Meant
For Individual Self-Image
June 17, 2020  By Liesl Schillinger
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Meet the Unacknowledged Hero Who Discovered That Handwashing Saves Lives

Liesl Schillinger on Misinformation, Anti-Scientism, and the Tragic Life and Times of Ignaz Semmelweis
March 27, 2020  By Liesl Schillinger
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What We Can Learn (and Should Unlearn) From Albert Camus’s The Plague

Liesl Schillinger on Catastrophe, Contagion, and the Human Condition
March 13, 2020  By Liesl Schillinger
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Even the Founding Fathers Couldn’t Envision a President Like Trump

Liesl Schillinger on Alexander Hamilton, Alexis de Tocqueville, and the Power of the Presidency
February 6, 2020  By Liesl Schillinger
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High Comedy and Misdemeanors:
The Shakespearean Drama at the Heart of Impeachment

Liesl Schillinger on the Contemporary Resonance of Love’s Labour’s Lost
December 17, 2019  By Liesl Schillinger
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Inès Cagnati: The Insider Who Always Felt Like an Outsider

Liesl Schillinger on the French Novelist Who Wrote
Powerfully of the Immigrant Experience
December 5, 2019  By Liesl Schillinger
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The Case Against an American King, Then and Now

Liesl Schillinger Considers the Impeachment of Donald Trump vs. the Indictment of George III
November 8, 2019  By Liesl Schillinger
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If de Tocqueville Predicted Twitter, Balzac Knew Trump Would Use It

Liesl Schillinger on Reading Balzac in the Age of Trump
February 26, 2019  By Liesl Schillinger
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