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Gates of Mind: Reflecting on Amy R. Bloch’s “Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise”
Historian Amy R. Bloch’s valuable “Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise” discloses a different kind of splendor, not the splendor of surface but of depth.
Ellen Handler SpitzMay 1, 2018
Sentenced at Conception: The Imprisoned and Unloved in Rachel Kushner’s “The Mars Room”
Jennifer Croft finds Rachel Kushner’s “The Mars Room” a brilliant work of unique rigor.
Jennifer CroftMay 1, 2018
- Fiction
The Monthly Digest: May 2018
May 1, 2018
Melissa Broder’s The Pisces: There is Light at the End of the Spiral
Anna Dorn talks to Melissa Broder about her new novel "The Pisces."
Anna DornMay 1, 2018
“An Anthology Held Together by Earnestness”: A Conversation with Leslie Jamison
Denise Grollmus talks to Leslie Jamison about her latest book, “The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath.”
Denise GrollmusApr 30, 2018
- Memoir & Essay
Twenty-First-Century Word Paintings: Nafissa Thompson-Spires’s “Heads of the Colored People”
Thompson-Spires’s satire, oriented around questions of blackness, joins a particular tradition of African-American sardonic absurdism.
Gabrielle BellotApr 30, 2018
- Fiction
(Again?) Again: Reading Leslie Jamison’s “The Recovering”
Ellen Wayland-Smith follows the narrative weave of Leslie Jamison’s memoir, “The Recovering.”
Ellen Wayland-SmithApr 30, 2018
- Memoir & Essay
When the Good Book Is Not Enough: Visiting the Museum of the Bible
Sara Lipton visits the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.
Sara LiptonApr 30, 2018
Cosplay and Clotted Cream: The Lasting Appeal of Jane Austen
A tour through the fannish wonders of Austenworld.
Leah AngstmanApr 29, 2018
- Memoir & Essay
Thinking with Martin Luther King Jr.
Shivani Radakrishnan reviews by “To Shape a New World,” a collection of essays edited by Tommie Shelby and Brandon Terry.
Shivani RadhakrishnanApr 29, 2018
- Philosophy & Religion
- Politics
A Welcoming Church No More
Pastor Sam Washington on how black Christians were betrayed by evangelicals.
Sam WashingtonApr 29, 2018
- Politics
- Religion
How the Seoul Government Turned a Bestselling Feminist Novel Into a Controversial PR Campaign
Colin Marshall on last year's best-selling novel "Kim Ji-young Born 1982."
Colin MarshallApr 29, 2018
MacArthur Park but in New York: On Andrew Durbin’s “MacArthur Park”
"MacArthur Park," Andrew Durbin’s debut fiction, exploits the novel’s capacity to connect and bridge without necessarily establishing complete contact.
Evan KleekampApr 28, 2018
- Fiction
The After of Disaster in “The Great Quake”
Henry Fountain’s scientific interests are wide-ranging and resolutely anchored in the human.
Sally McGraneApr 28, 2018
- History
- Science & Technology
For the Purposes of Education as Well as Recreation: Historical Notes on “The Handmaid’s Tale (Special Edition)”
None of the adaptations of “The Handmaid’s Tale” have yet found themselves able to include the actual ending of the novel.
Gerry CanavanApr 28, 2018
- SF
My Dad Got a Photocopier at His Office: John Porcellino on 30 Years of King-Cat
Nathan Scott McNamara interviews John Porcellino, writer and comic artist of "King-Cat" and "From Lone Mountain."
Nathan Scott McNamaraApr 28, 2018