The Way Out of the Fly-Bottle: Wittgenstein’s “Tractatus” at 100
Wittgenstein’s early opus exerted a huge influence on literary modernism.
Wittgenstein’s early opus exerted a huge influence on literary modernism.
Nathan Scott McNamara talks with debut novelist and musician Tice Cin about her recent novel "Keeping the House."
THIS PIECE APPEARS IN THE SEMIPUBLIC INTELLECTUAL ISSUE OF THE LARB QUARTERLY JOURNAL, NO. 31.
New novels by Kim Newman and Michael Shea illustrate the power of popular myth.
Emina Melonic reviews Mustafa Akyol's "Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance."
Joshua Ferris’s fourth novel is a comic epic about cancer and the American Dream.
Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher are joined by Tom McCarthy, whose latest novel is “The Making of Incarnation.”
Elizabeth Rosner interviews Laura Davis about her new memoir on caring for her mother at the end of her life, “The Burning Light of Two Stars.”
Teaching a traumatic history through the work of a popular children’s author.
The formidable Ludmilla Petrushevskaya enchants with her toughness of spirit in this March 2021 interview.
Lev Nachman on two books about China in the 1980s: Isabella Weber’s “How China Escaped Shock Therapy” and Jeremy Brown’s “June Fourth.”
Puloma Mukherjee talks to Kenan Trebinčević and Susan Shapiro about their new middle-grade book, "World in Between: Based on a True Refugee Story."
Nathan Scott McNamara interviews editor Valerie Miles about Granta’s list of Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists.
John Reeves reviews Allen C Guelzo's new biography of Robert E. Lee.