Randy Rosenthal

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).

Articles

Everyone Is Implicated
Randy Rosenthal reviews Juliet Grames’s new Italian mystery "The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia."
Randy RosenthalSep 30, 2024
- Noir
It’s Not Me, It’s You: On Sloane Crosley’s “Cult Classic”
Randy Rosenthal reviews Sloane Crosley’s new novel “Cult Classic."
Randy RosenthalAug 3, 2022
- Fiction
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.
Randy RosenthalOct 27, 2021
- Fiction
Waking from Dreams: Haruki Murakami’s Short Stories
Haruki Murakami’s new collection of stories is an assortment of alluring, mysterious dreams.
Randy RosenthalMay 26, 2021
- Fiction
A Journey to the Idea of North: On Hari Kunzru’s “Red Pill”
Randy Rosenthal reviews Hari Kunzru's latest novel, "Red Pill."
Randy RosenthalNov 18, 2020
- Fiction
Not “The Plague” but “Notes from Underground”
Randy RosenthalOct 17, 2020
Mystery and #MeToo in Sara Sligar’s “Take Me Apart”
On “Take Me Apart,” the debut novel from Sara Sligar.
Randy RosenthalMay 20, 2020
- Noir
A Love Letter to Venice
Randy Rosenthal witnesses “A Beautiful Crime” by Christopher Bollen.
Randy RosenthalMar 11, 2020
- Noir
Lying the Truth with Emmanuel Carrère
Randy Rosenthal unpacks “97,196 Words: Essays” by Emmanuel Carrère, translated from the French by John Lambert.
Randy RosenthalDec 14, 2019
- Around the World
- Memoir & Essay
What about Eating Animals, Greta?
Randy Rosenthal questions the lack of calls for reducing animal consumption as part of the most popular proposed climate policies.
Randy RosenthalNov 5, 2019
Fate and Misogyny: On Julia Phillips’s “Disappearing Earth”
"Phillips has woven a sophisticated and powerful literary thriller." Randy Rosenthal reviews Julia Phillips's debut novel.
Randy RosenthalMay 21, 2019
- Fiction
A Knack for Embracing Impermanence: On Pico Iyer’s “Autumn Light”
A new memoir about coming to terms with aging and death.
Randy RosenthalApr 16, 2019
Art and Enchantment in Haruki Murakami’s “Killing Commendatore”
For Randy Rosenthal, reading Haruki Murakami’s “Killing Commendatore” is like exploring underground caverns “enormous and deep and lovely.”
Randy RosenthalOct 23, 2018
- Around the World
- Fiction
Lamentations of the Woman: Irreverent Feminism in Therese Bohman’s “Eventide”
It’s not your mother’s feminism in Therese Bohman’s “Eventide.”
Randy RosenthalApr 13, 2018
- Around the World
- Fiction
How the Exodus Really Happened, According to a New Theory by Israel Knohl
Randy Rosenthal describes Israel Knohl's theory about the true story of the Exodus, described in his forthcoming book.
Randy RosenthalMar 29, 2018
Erling Kagge, Seeking Silence Within
Randy Rosenthal reviews "Silence: In the Age of Noise," an exploration and meditation by Erling Kagge.
Randy RosenthalDec 20, 2017