Voiceless in Vienna
A new Slovenian novel chronicles the exploits of Nada, daughter of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch....
On Crying for Sports Heroes
What’s the meaning of our grief for sports heroes — especially those, like Maradona, well known for their personal failings?...
A Galaxy of Monuments
Jill Schary Robinson visits “City of Immortals: Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris,” the recently published book by Carolyn Campbell....
Cultural Fronts
A well-researched and very useful study of the Soviet Union’s cultural diplomacy....
Hybrid Authoritarianism
What Viktor Orbán’s Hungary has to teach us about Donald Trump’s America....
How to Read an Artichoke: On George Saunders’s “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain”
Robert Allen Papinchak sits in on the master class of “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain” by George Saunders....
Family Fault Lines: On Nadia Owusu’s “Aftershocks”
A new memoir about growing up on uncertain and shifting ground....
Unfit for Prison: On Ilya Bernstein’s Edition of Osip Mandelstam’s “Poems”
Leeore Schnairsohn scans Ilya Bernstein’s translations of Osip Mandelstam....
Robert Walser’s Lockdown Britain
Reading Robert Walser in Britain under lockdown is to be confronted with a duality....
“I’m Sure You Understand”: On Pavel Lembersky’s “The Death of Samusis, and Other Stories”
Ian Ross Singleton finds living color in “The Death of Samusis, and Other Stories” by Pavel Lembersky....
Writing Isn’t a Sacred Activity, It Is an Ordinary Activity: A Conversation with Karl Ove Knausgaard
Bob Blaisdell talks with writer Karl Ove Knausgaard....
Capitalist Naturalism
Fernanda Melchor’s novel “Hurricane Season” invokes the themes of the classic naturalist novel....
