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The Influence of the Father: A Conversation Between Adam Ehrlich Sachs and Michael Hofmann
Adam Sachs interviews poet, critic, and translator Michael Hofmann about his father’s influence on his writing.
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Reading Ruskin in Cataclysmic Times
Alexandra Milsom reviews Suzanne Fagence Cooper’s “To See Clearly: Why Ruskin Matters.”
Mining Nostalgia
An exhibit of apartheid-era photographs by David Goldblatt presents them without adequate context and loses a huge opportunity.
“My Life Is My Message”: Ramachandra Guha’s “Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914–1948”
Yugank Goyal reviews a massive new biography of Gandhi.
The Inadequacies of Justice
Did Germany really pay for the Holocaust? Samuel Clowes Huneke reviews "Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice."
Dispatches from the Future of a New China
“Broken Stars” gives voice to an eclectic group, serving as a who’s who of SF authors, critics, and other anchors in China’s burgeoning SF culture industry.
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Finding and Losing Oneself in “Invisible Planets”
Virginia L. Conn visits "Invisible Planets," a collection of Chinese SF stories and criticism edited and translated by Ken Liu.
“But There Has Been a Catastrophe”: On Vasily Grossman’s “Stalingrad”
Philip Ó Ceallaigh searches for truth behind the censorship of “Stalingrad,” the epic novel by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler.
Rooting Out the Dirt: A Conversation with Ryan Jacobs
Aaron Shulman interviews a crime reporter who wrote a book about truffles.
Toward the Weirdy-Beardy: On Andrei Egunov-Nikolev’s “Beyond Tula: A Soviet Pastoral”
James Womack romps through “Beyond Tula: A Soviet Pastoral,” translated from the Russian by Ainsley Morse.
Shine a Light: Tom Roberge and Emma Ramadan on Selling Uncommon Books
Nathan Scott McNamara talks to Tom Roberge and Emma Ramadan, co-owners of Riffraff, a bookstore, coffee shop, and bar in Providence, Rhode Island.
The Forced Conversion of Varlam Shalamov
Anastasiya Osipova argues that the translators of “Kolyma Stories” by Varlam Shalamov have often obscured the author’s literary and political intent.
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