The Limits of Agency: On Olga Ravn’s “My Work”
Ariel Courage reviews Olga Ravn’s “My Work,” translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell.
Ariel Courage reviews Olga Ravn’s “My Work,” translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell.
Ariel CourageSep 26, 2023
Sumana Roy on how the vernacularization of the English language has affected Indian political and cultural life.
Sumana RoySep 22, 2023
Joel Cuthbertson defends the creative writing MFA as an educational, not a vocational, enterprise.
Joel CuthbertsonSep 2, 2023
Yelena Furman reviews Marat Grinberg’s “The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines.”
Yelena FurmanAug 29, 2023
Harry Waksberg reviews a new book from Fantagraphics about television pioneer Ernie Kovacs, “Ernie in Kovacsland.”
Harry WaksbergAug 17, 2023
Victoria Baena reviews Clare Carlisle’s “The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life.”
Victoria BaenaAug 15, 2023
Clare Carlisle analyzes the theme of marriage in the life and work of two great 19th-century thinkers and writers, George Eliot and Søren Kierkegaard.
Clare CarlisleAug 14, 2023
Grace Linden reviews Nicole Flattery’s “Nothing Special.”
Grace LindenJul 16, 2023
Thalia Williamson analyzes how novels that limit or refuse paragraph breaks challenge our distracted modes of reading.
Thalia WilliamsonJul 5, 2023
Katharine Coldiron ponders why we love the bad art we love.
Katharine ColdironJun 24, 2023
Dima Ayoub describes the long and multivarious career of Palestinian author and critic Salma Khadra Jayyusi.
Dima AyoubJun 14, 2023
Ann Manov reviews Adam Shatz’s “Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination.”
Ann ManovJun 6, 2023
Ed Simon reviews Stuart Jeffries’s “Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern.”
Ed SimonMay 25, 2023
Tom Allen reviews David Grundy’s “Present Continuous.”
Tom AllenMay 23, 2023
Bob Blaisdell reviews Gary Saul Morson’s “Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter.”
Bob BlaisdellMay 17, 2023
Alexander Manshel, Laura B. McGrath, and J. D. Porter discuss the economics and aesthetics of audiobooks.
Alexander Manshel, Laura B. McGrath, J. D. PorterMay 16, 2023
Jasmine Liu visits Princeton University Library’s exhibition of Toni Morrison’s archive.
Jasmine LiuMay 6, 2023
John Galbraith Simmons reviews Joel Warner’s “The Curse of the Marquis de Sade: A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal...
John Galbraith SimmonsApr 11, 2023
Nick Owchar examines Nicholas Delbanco’s 2020 book “Why Writing Matters” in the context of the author’s career.
Nick OwcharApr 1, 2023
Marjorie Perloff reads the Afropessimist author Frank Wilderson’s New Year’s cards as poetry.
Marjorie PerloffMar 30, 2023
Jeremy Tiang reviews Li Zi Shu’s “The Age of Goodbyes” and Cheow Thia Chan’s “Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern...
Jeremy TiangFeb 11, 2023
Paul Thompson examines the metabolization of bullshit into our lives, by way of analyzing Peter Bogdanovich’s film “Paper Moon” and Robert Greene’s...
Paul ThompsonJan 28, 2023
Yelena Furman reviews Sasha Senderovich’s “How the Soviet Jew Was Made.”
Yelena FurmanJan 15, 2023
Dan Sinykin breaks down the Post45 Data Collective set on literary awards compiled by Stephanie Young and Juliana Spahr.
Dan SinykinJan 9, 2023