Hong Sang-soo’s Dream Time
On Hong Sang-soo's "The Day After" and the filmmaker's place in slow cinema....
The Dark Forest and Its Discontents: Cixin Liu’s “Death’s End”
Peter Berard reviews the final book of Cixin Liu's "Remembrance of Earth’s Past" trilogy....
Happy Families: Lara Vapnyar on Vesna Goldsworthy’s Adaptation of Tolstoy in “Monsieur Ka”
The richest aspect of Vesna Goldsworthy’s novel “Monsieur Ka” is not its literary gaming but its incessant attempts to make the reader question reality....
A Queer Pilgrimage to Crema
Mikaella Clements goes to Crema, Italy, the setting of Luca Guadagnino’s lush film adaptation of André Aciman’s “Call Me by Your Name.”...
The Disappearance of the Subject: On Armen Avanessian’s “Miamification”
On “Miamification” by Armen Avanessian, which tries to imagine a "progressive politics equidistant from technological utopianism and technophobia.”...
The Insistence of Memory
Dispatches from the unquiet massacre zones of Sri Lanka and Rwanda....
The Boy Who Stared Death in the Eye: On Gaito Gazdanov’s “The Beggar and Other Stories”
Eileen Battersby finds many riches in “The Beggar and Other Stories” by Gaito Gazdanov, translated from the Russian by Bryan Karetnyk....
A Silver Thread: Islam in Eastern Europe
Jacob Mikanowski traces the silver thread of Islam in the tapestry of Eastern European culture....
Keep Showing Up: A Q-and-A with “This Is How I Save My Life” Memoirist Amy B. Scher
Discussing the mind-body connection, intergenerational trauma, and self-generated healing....
Human Rights Lawyers — A Stalwart Breed
Mark Ellis reviews Michael Sfard's "The Wall and the Gate: Israel, Palestine, and the Legal Battle for Human."...
The EU on a Shoestring
How young backpackers remade the social landscape of postwar Europe....
Andouni: The Shared and Unshared Songs of Armenian Exile
"My great-grandfather often was quiet and rarely spoke, if at all, about what he endured. My knowledge of what happened is limited — impossible to verify."...
