The Impossibility of Capturing Truth in a Biography

The Impossibility of Capturing Truth in a Biography

Iris Origo on Why We Try Anyway

By Iris Origo | October 15, 2019

Who Has the Right to Write About Hurricane Katrina?

Who Has the Right to Write About Hurricane Katrina?

Maggie Neil on The Yellow House and the Many Names of Loss

By Maggie Neil | October 11, 2019

Nobel Prize-Winner Olga Tokarczuk in Conversation with John Freeman

Nobel Prize-Winner Olga Tokarczuk in Conversation with John Freeman

The Newly Minted Laureate and Author of Flights

By John Freeman | October 10, 2019

Rumi Priestly Poet of Love <em>and</em> Master of the One Liner

Rumi Priestly Poet of Love and Master of the One Liner

Brad Gooch on One of the World's Great Poets

By Brad Gooch | October 10, 2019

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Giant of Kenyan Letters

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Giant of Kenyan Letters

Billy Kahora on a Global Literary Icon

By Billy Kahora | October 9, 2019

Philip Pullman on Children's Literature and the Critics Who Disdain It

Philip Pullman on Children's Literature and the Critics Who Disdain It

Don't Let Anyone Tell You What You Should or Should Not Be Reading

By Philip Pullman | October 8, 2019

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On the Darkness at the Heart of Jamaica Kincaid's Children's Mystery

By Gabrielle Bellot | October 7, 2019

In Nazism, Joseph Roth Saw the End of Europe’s Cosmopolitan Dream

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On the Endless Parade of Literary Dead Girls

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The Books of Susan Sontag, Ranked

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A Fickle Superfan’s Guide to the Dark Lady of Letters

By Lisa Levy | October 4, 2019

The Anti-Colonial Vision of James Baldwin's Last Two Unfinished Works

The Anti-Colonial Vision of James Baldwin's Last Two Unfinished Works

Bill Mullen on The Welcome Table and No Papers for Muhammad

By Bill V. Mullen | October 4, 2019

The Author Who Didn't Care to Be Remembered

The Author Who Didn't Care to Be Remembered

On the Curious Case of Ann Petry

By Jean-Christophe Cloutier | October 4, 2019

Acts of Recognition: On the Women Characters of Haruki Murakami

Acts of Recognition: On the Women Characters of Haruki Murakami

Mieko Kawakami Considers the Work of One of the World's Great Novelists

By Mieko Kawakami | October 3, 2019

Can Language Be Understood as a Spiritual Medium?

Can Language Be Understood as a Spiritual Medium?

Virginia Woolf, Anne Carson, and the Use of Form to
Investigate Truth and Death

By Johanna Skibsrud | October 3, 2019

Sigrid Undset's Doomed Flâneuse is<br> a Cautionary Tale

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Lauren Elkin on Jenny, a Novel of Rome

By Lauren Elkin | October 2, 2019

On the Courage and Complexity of Olga Tokarczuk

On the Courage and Complexity of Olga Tokarczuk

Jacek Dehnel Considers the Work of the Great Polish Novelist

By Jacek Dehnel | October 2, 2019

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