Around the World

"For a long time now I haven't been I."

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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.
Utibe Gautt AteMay 13, 2018
- Around the World
- Memoir & Essay
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."
Mark EllisMay 12, 2018
The EU on a Shoestring
How young backpackers remade the social landscape of postwar Europe.
Max HolleranMay 12, 2018
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."
Diana ArterianMay 11, 2018
- Around the World
- Poetry
Cisco and Microsoft — Their Part in My Downfall; or, the Lost Ethics of Higher Ed; or, Maybe, a Sob Story
Toby Miller reflects on his unfortunate experiences in British academia.
Toby MillerMay 10, 2018
What History Cannot Teach Us: A Conversation with Eugene Vodolazkin and Lisa Hayden
Maya Vinokour speaks to Eugene Vodolozakin about his latest novel, “The Aviator,” and to his longtime translator, Lisa Hayden.
Maya VinokourMay 7, 2018
- Around the World
- Fiction
Daddy’s Issues: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “Spring”
If you still haven’t tried Knausgaard or have been unsatisfied with his helplessly casual "New York Times" travel essays, try "Spring."
Bob BlaisdellMay 5, 2018
- Around the World
- Fiction
Afterimages of a Dark Past in Ariel Dorfman’s “Darwin’s Ghosts”
Ariel Dorfman returns to fiction with a fact-based story that puts the reader on guard immediately.
Mark Axelrod-SokolovMay 4, 2018
- Around the World
- Fiction
Mario Santiago: Infrarrealist and Terrorist
Ilan Stavans introduces “Poetry Comes out of My Mouth,” a collection of Mario Santiago Papasquiaro’s poems translated by Arturo Mantecón.
Ilan StavansMay 4, 2018
- Around the World
- Poetry
“Not in Someone Else’s Footsteps”: Studying Literature from the Gulag
Lydia Roberts praises “Intellectual Life and Literature at Solovki 1923-1930: The Paris of the Northern Concentration Camps” by Andrea Gullotta.
Lydia RobertsMay 3, 2018
Gates of Mind: Reflecting on Amy R. Bloch’s “Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise”
Historian Amy R. Bloch’s valuable “Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise” discloses a different kind of splendor, not the splendor of surface but of depth.
Ellen Handler SpitzMay 1, 2018
The Hard-Boiled and the Mundane
On “Signal Loss” and the works of Garry Disher.
Glenn HarperApr 27, 2018
- Around the World
- Noir

Around the World

"For a long time now I haven't been I."— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"For a long time now I haven't been I."

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet