Randy Rosenthal teaches writing for Harvard and is the author of The Messiah of Shangri-La (2023), Dear Burma (2023), and The Orient Express: The Fiction that Brought the East to the West (2024).
Randy Rosenthal
Articles
Everyone Is Implicated
Randy Rosenthal reviews Juliet Grames’s new Italian mystery "The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia."
It’s Not Me, It’s You: On Sloane Crosley’s “Cult Classic”
Randy Rosenthal reviews Sloane Crosley’s new novel “Cult Classic."
The Formation of a Neo-Nazi: On Sjón’s “Red Milk”
An admirable but unsatisfying account of why a disaffected man might drift toward extremism.
Waking from Dreams: Haruki Murakami’s Short Stories
Haruki Murakami’s new collection of stories is an assortment of alluring, mysterious dreams.
A Journey to the Idea of North: On Hari Kunzru’s “Red Pill”
Randy Rosenthal reviews Hari Kunzru's latest novel, "Red Pill."
Not “The Plague” but “Notes from Underground”
Mystery and #MeToo in Sara Sligar’s “Take Me Apart”
On “Take Me Apart,” the debut novel from Sara Sligar.
A Love Letter to Venice
Randy Rosenthal witnesses “A Beautiful Crime” by Christopher Bollen.
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