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Isaac Bashevis Singer: Writer and Critic
David Stromberg considers the long-neglected critical writings of Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
“Taste the Journey”: On Caroline Eden’s “Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes, Through Darkness and Light”
Lauren Goldenberg savors “Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes, Through Darkness and Light” by Caroline Eden.
The People Will Not Forget
The closure of a Guatemalan anti-corruption office makes their government look bad, and the United States even worse.
Horror and Moral Splendor: On Douglas Smith’s “The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin”
Richard Lourie takes on “The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin” by Douglas Smith.
Daring to Hope for the Improbable: On Bernard Stiegler’s “The Age of Disruption”
A major European philosopher diagnoses the pathologies of our time.
The Stars Her Destination: On Sara Wheeler’s “Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age”
Bob Blaisdell tags along with Sara Wheeler through “Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age.”
Exhuming Lafcadio Hearn
Jeff Kingston looks at three new books by and on the extraordinary Lafcadio Hearn.
Before Climate Change, a Dynamic Arctic
A dazzling new history of the Arctic region between the United States and Russia is leavened with sharp prose and well-informed insights.
The Tangled Web of US Border Security Around the World
Laura Weiss traverses Todd Miller's "Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the US Border Around the World."
Out of the Glass Case: Museum Heists and Repatriations
Megan Ward looks at the 2018 film “Museo,” starring Gael García Bernal, and contemporary debates around museum repatriation and cultural memory.
“Our Own Madness, Our Own Absurd” (Andrei Platonov, Vladimir Sharov, and George Bernard Shaw)
Caryl Emerson ponders "Fourteen Little Red Huts" and the moral visions of Andrei Platonov, Vladimir Sharov, and George Bernard Shaw.
Society Is the Biggest Murder Scene of All: Adrian Nathan West on Ingeborg Bachmann’s “Malina”
In Ingeborg Bachmann’s only completed novel “Malina,” translated by Philip Boehm, the first-person narrator is unnamed, or her name is simply "I".
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