Women Writing War: A List of Essential Contemporary War Literature by Women
On her blog, Kayla Williams disagreed with Cara Hoffman’s op-ed in The New York Times decrying what she perceived as a paucity of women’s voices in...
On her blog, Kayla Williams disagreed with Cara Hoffman’s op-ed in The New York Times decrying what she perceived as a paucity of women’s voices in...
Kayla WilliamsMay 26, 2014
IT’S EASY to understand why David Bellos and his publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, chose to bring out the French author Daniel Anselme’s debut...
Michael LokessonMay 26, 2014
Klay’s nearly universally acclaimed collection — about our experiences of warfare, on the ground and on the homefront — though promising, is deeply...
Michael LokessonMay 26, 2014
Note: We've simultaneously published a video interview of Michelle Huneven at the LA Times Festival of Books.] ONE NIGHT late on an early 20-something...
Susannah LuthiMay 12, 2014
Michelle Huneven discusses her latest novel "Off Course," and how redemption comes with scars.
Tom LutzMay 12, 2014
Cheryl Strayed and S. Kirk Walsh discuss the importance of reprints and the life and work of Julie Hayden.
S. Kirk WalshMay 1, 2014
Wendy C. Ortiz’s Rhapsodomancy is a literary event not to be missed; Jessica Dewberry explains.
Jessica DewberryApr 22, 2014
Casebook recalls the feeling of those Sunday nights when you’re a kid in school and the week is about to start; you feel the presence of something...
Susannah LuthiApr 15, 2014
Jessica Dewberry reports from the AWP on what exactly is a hybrid writer.
Jessica DewberryMar 19, 2014
"No one knew where the spring on Mount Terminus originated," but in his mythological prose David Grand is constantly digging toward it.
Sam WorleyMar 11, 2014
Donatien Grau looks at Marcel Proust’s Parisian legacy and finds his presence among Angelenos.
Donatien GrauMar 10, 2014
Which books does Wendy Lesser love best? J.C. Hallman finds out ...
J. C. HallmanFeb 27, 2014
Norman Manea, interviewer and interviewee.
Paul MandelbaumFeb 2, 2014
Carla Baricz interviews Norman Manea on hooliganism in Romania, the novelistic memoir and the 10th anniversary of The Hooligan’s Return.
Carla BariczFeb 2, 2014
Freud thought we were all unconsciously convinced of our own immortality.
Morten Høi JensenJan 23, 2014
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky may be the best-known unknown writer of his generation.
Diego BáezJan 22, 2014
Jim Krusoe is not just a writer’s writer, he’s a reader’s writer.
Monona WaliJan 21, 2014
The Landmarks anthology is a vertiginous tour into the vast geography of world literature today
Chip RossettiJan 19, 2014
Ralph Fiennes has finely crafted an honest film about Dickens's sometimes callousness toward the opposite sex.
John RomanoJan 1, 2014
A tribute to Sterne on his 300th birthday.
Ted ScheinmanNov 24, 2013
An appreciation of Aldous Huxley
Steffie NelsonNov 22, 2013
The Pendle with trial is fodder for Jeanette Winterson's addictive new page-turner.
Brian FinneyNov 20, 2013
My German problem undoubtedly stems from the fact that it was the language my parents used when they wanted to conceal something from me as a child.
Eric LundgrenNov 18, 2013
In honor of the French novelist, essayist, and philosopher
Robert ZaretskyNov 7, 2013