Seeing Through Hypocrisy
/Elfriede Jelinek’s Charges is a response to the European refugee crisis, but can fiction address reality by stripping it of all its details?
Read MoreUp Against Art: An interview with Jessie Chaffee
/Steve Danziger interviews Jessie Chaffee about her much-praised debut novel Florence in Ecstasy.
Read MoreWastelands – Stephen Crane’s War
/Stephen Crane was born too late to go to war, but The Red Badge of Courage endures, not only as a story about war and what happens to people in war, but also as a remarkable experiment in literary modernism.
Read MoreThe Writings of the War
/A century ago this year, the American Expeditionary Force set off for Europe to end all wars. Andrew Carroll's new book looks at the lives of the men who faced the Great War, and the enigmatic general who led them.
Read MoreObstinate About Surviving
/Batman and Inception director Christopher Nolan's latest film is a sprawling WWII epic about the desperate heroism of the Dunkirk evacuation.
Read MoreBook Review: Patrick Henry
/A lavishly-detailed new biography tells the story of the Virginia plantation-owner and early voice for independence from Great Britain
Read MoreBook Review: Warner Bros
/The latest entry in Yale's "Jewish Lives" series is the story of Warner Brothers Studo, by the great film historian David Thomson
Read MoreThe Parties Were Hell
/Diana Trilling worked in her eminent husband’s shadow; a new biography hints at the toll that took and brings her accomplishments into the light.
Read MoreMoonlight in Vermont
/Her remarkable bittersweet memoir reveals Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer as a shrewd anthropologist of wartime America.
Read MoreHunger Pangs
/Roxane Gay's new memoir about food, trauma, and her "unruly body" is often as difficult to read as it must have been to write.
Read MoreThe Sooner Disquieted
/What compromises did women in Tudor England face? What joys? What prospects, if any, for fulfillment? A sweeping new history cross-sections the issue.
Read MoreBook Review: Heretics & Believers
/A big, wonderfully readable new history of the sixteenth-century religious upheaval that transformed English life
Read MoreGood Grief: In Memory of Denis Johnson
/Denis Johnson died last month, but we have his ten novels and his legacy: the inclination to see the great beauty only afforded by the stripping away of joy.
Read MoreFalling into the Future: An Interview with Paula Bomer
/Steve Danziger interviews Paula Bomer about her new collection of essays, Mysteries and Mortality, and much more besides.
Read MoreChange Your Direction
/A lively memoir shows there's much more to learning a language than conjugating irregular verbs.
Read MoreDown the Rabbit Hole
/An innovative new book on Lewis Carroll and space avoids spoiling the fun by explaining everything too literally, but still offers new insights on his playful oeuvre.
Read MoreBook Review: Paradise Lost
/The newest biography of the Jazz Age bard tries to get at the man beneath the high-flying legends.
Read MoreBook Review: Ernest Hemingway
/The epic and tortured life of Ernest Hemingway is told with remarkable insight in a powerful new biography
Read MoreBook Review: The Afterlife of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
/An intriguing new book charts the long, complicated, and surprisingly vital JFK memory-industry.
Read MoreBook Review: Be Like the Fox
/A vivid new biography attempts to get at the true nature of the perennially-misunderstood Machiavelli
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