Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Building Lives on Sand: On Natalia Ginzburg’s “Family” and “Borghesia”
Lynne Sharon Schwartz reflects on meeting Natalia Ginzburg, maintaining a life-long relationship to her work, and reading “Family” and “Borghesia” in translation.
Lynne Sharon SchwartzMay 27, 2021
- Fiction
Text and Texture
Great works of fiction have a consistency, a firmness and density that can be touched.
Lynne Sharon SchwartzJul 7, 2019
- Literary Criticism
“The Way Life Happens”: On Laura Esther Wolfson’s “For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors”
Lynne Sharon Schwartz praises “For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors,” a collection of personal essays by Laura Esther Wolfson.
Lynne Sharon SchwartzJun 28, 2018
- Around the World
- Memoir & Essay
Sitting Up with the Dead
Lynne Sharon Schwartz on "Cockroaches," Scholastique Mukasonga's look at the Rwandan genocide.
Lynne Sharon SchwartzJan 4, 2017
- Around the World
- Memoir & Essay
“Looking for Parents and Cover”: All the Poems of Stevie Smith
Lynne Sharon Schwartz appraises the enduring work of Stevie Smith.
Lynne Sharon SchwartzOct 28, 2016
- Poetry
From Objective to Subjective
Lynne Sharon SchwartzApr 3, 2016
- Memoir & Essay
The Evolution of a Writer
Lynne Sharon Schwartz discusses Joyce Carol Oates's "The Lost Landscape."
Lynne Sharon SchwartzOct 7, 2015
- Memoir & Essay

Building Lives on Sand: On Natalia Ginzburg’s “Family” and “Borghesia”