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Drinking with the Ghost: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen in Portugal
On a recent trip to Porto, Portugal Katie Orphan reads and reflects on Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen's collection of short stories, "Exemplary Tales."
Katie OrphanAug 1, 2018
The Monthly Digest: August 2018
Aug 1, 2018
Speaking of Silence
Does Alain Corbin's "A History of Silence" help us, as the author hopes, relearn how to be silent?
David E. CooperJul 31, 2018
- Religion
Delightful Listening: A Conversation Between Viet Thanh Nguyen with Arundhati Roy
Viet Thanh Nguyen, whose novel “The Sympathizer” won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, speaks to novelist Arundhati Roy.
Viet Thanh NguyenJul 31, 2018
Leaps of Doubt in R. O. Kwon’s “The Incendiaries”
R. O. Kwon’s debut cannily blurs the line between campus novel and cult lit.
Anna E. ClarkJul 31, 2018
- Fiction
You Should Come
John Powers remembers his friend Jonathan Gold's generous, inviting, life-affirming mantra: "you should come."
John PowersJul 31, 2018
A Thousand Points of Fight: Jon Stewart and the Limits of Mockery
Professor Bonnie Honig explains that by imploring Trump, we're giving him exactly the kind of attention he craves.
Bonnie HonigJul 31, 2018
WhatsApps with Women #1: Joanna Walsh Talks to Writer Lauren Elkin about Twitter
A WhatsApp conversation between Joanna Walsh, the author of “Break.up,” and Lauren Elkin, the author of “Flâneuse: Women Walk the City.”
Joanna WalshJul 30, 2018
- Fiction
- Memoir & Essay
The Hat: Remembering Jonathan Gold
Michael Jaime-Becerra offers his thanks to legendary food writer Jonathan Gold.
Michael Jaime-BecerraJul 30, 2018
- Food & Drink
- Nonfiction
Without Exception: On the Ordinariness of Violence
Brad Evans speaks with Lauren Berlant. A conversation in Brad Evans’s “Histories of Violence” series.
Brad EvansJul 30, 2018
- Histories of Violence
- Philosophy & Religion
The Degradations of Empire
Adrian Van Young reviews “A Necessary Evil” by Abir Mukherjee.
Adrian Van YoungJul 30, 2018
- Around the World
- Noir
Who Was Emily Brontë?
How could the wary, introspective Emily Brontë have created the frenetic, emotional turmoil that sustains "Wuthering Heights"?
Eileen BattersbyJul 30, 2018
Edith Wharton's Characters Were Products of Their Environment
Victoria Patterson explores Edith Wharton's keen sensibility to write characters who were flawed products of their environment.
Victoria PattersonJul 30, 2018
Darkness in Daylight
The author of a global history of concentration camps on the dehumanization rhetoric in the United States.
David BreithauptJul 29, 2018
- History
- Politics
Betty Davis, Grace Jones, and the Art of Anti-Confessional Cinema
Daphne Brooks on "Betty: They Say I'm Different" and "Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami."
Daphne A. BrooksJul 29, 2018
- Film
- Music
Reverse Cowboy
Disentangling fact from myth in the figure of the American cowboy.
Greg JacksonJul 29, 2018
- Cultural Studies
- History