LOOKING AT WOMEN LOOKING AT WAR: A War and Justice Diary, by Victoria Amelina; translated by Daisy Gibbons and Uilleam Blacker Three years after Vladimir Putin...
THE ECHOES, by Evie Wyld Death and its ambassadors, ghosts, are perpetually in style. Lookit: Just yesterday, in fact, several people died. Already this year, two...
THEORY & PRACTICE, by Michelle de Kretser In the 1980s, an intellectual revolution took hold on college campuses, spreading, this newspaper reported at the time, “like...
It was early February, and Dylan Mulvaney was floating on the high seas — somewhere in the Caribbean, perhaps near St. Martin — on a cruise...
2. The Fall: “Totally Wired” Smash cut to two decades later, when Sante is living in New York, taking in the downtown scene and often swinging...
DREAM STATE, by Eric Puchner Even if you live in Montana, the place is partly a dream — a fantasy shaped by our cultural imagination and...
SNOWY DAY AND OTHER STORIES, by Lee Chang-dong; translated by Heinz Insu Fenkl and Yoosup Chang In the first minutes of “Burning,” a 2018 movie by...
JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend, by Rebecca Romney It is a truth universally acknowledged...
CEREBRAL ENTANGLEMENTS: How the Brain Shapes Our Public and Private Lives, by Allan J. Hamilton The human brain! It’s amazing! A master conductor of our emotional...
THE LOVES OF MY LIFE: A Sex Memoir, by Edmund White Some people celebrate turning 85 with grandchildren, gardening or a nice cake. Edmund White has...
