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Beginning with Abortion

Beginning with Abortion

Fran Bigman

Fran Bigman discusses Brit Bennett’s “The Mothers” and the stories we tell about abortion.

Capitalism Is a Mental Illness: “Hustlers,” “The Known World,” and a Failed TV Project

Capitalism Is a Mental Illness: “Hustlers,” “The Known World,” and a Failed TV Project

Annie McGreevy

Annie McGreevy on “Hustlers,” Edward P. Jones’s “The Known World,” a failed TV project, and the hustles that sustain us under capitalism.

Exhuming Lafcadio Hearn

Exhuming Lafcadio Hearn

Jeff Kingston

Jeff Kingston looks at three new books by and on the extraordinary Lafcadio Hearn.

All About Awe: A Conversation with Peter Heller

All About Awe: A Conversation with Peter Heller

Tom Zoellner

An adventure novelist talks about fishing, kayaking, friendship, and God.

“Our Own Madness, Our Own Absurd” (Andrei Platonov, Vladimir Sharov, and George Bernard Shaw)

“Our Own Madness, Our Own Absurd” (Andrei Platonov, Vladimir Sharov, and George Bernard Shaw)

Caryl Emerson

Caryl Emerson ponders "Fourteen Little Red Huts" and the moral visions of Andrei Platonov, Vladimir Sharov, and George Bernard Shaw.

Society Is the Biggest Murder Scene of All: Adrian Nathan West on Ingeborg Bachmann’s “Malina”

Society Is the Biggest Murder Scene of All: Adrian Nathan West on Ingeborg Bachmann’s “Malina”

Adrian Nathan West

In Ingeborg Bachmann’s only completed novel “Malina,” translated by Philip Boehm, the first-person narrator is unnamed, or her name is simply "I".

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Channeling Cervantes: On Salman Rushdie’s “Quichotte”

Channeling Cervantes: On Salman Rushdie’s “Quichotte”

Brian Finney

Brian Finney reviews “Quichotte,” the latest novel from Salman Rushdie.

“Call Me by Your Name” Gets a Dubious Sequel in André Aciman’s “Find Me”

“Call Me by Your Name” Gets a Dubious Sequel in André Aciman’s “Find Me”

Eric Newman

Eric Newman reviews “Find Me,” André Aciman’s underwhelming sequel to “Call Me by Your Name.”

Ghosts Are Always There: An Interview with Téa Obreht on “Inland”

Ghosts Are Always There: An Interview with Téa Obreht on “Inland”

Rachel Barenbaum

Rachel Barenbaum talks to writer Téa Obreht about her new novel, "Inland."

Privilege Nostalgia: Reading Beckett During Brexit

Privilege Nostalgia: Reading Beckett During Brexit

Eva Kenny

What does the central role of literary disinheritance in Beckett's work teach us about those who voted for Brexit?

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