The Comic Queen of Metafiction
Gunnhild Øyehaug talks about her twisted new collection of short stories
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, February 24, 2023
Brilliant Carnage
Sam Peckinpah’s slow-motion bullet ballet
By David Lehman Thursday, February 23, 2023
“Not Only the Eskimos” by Lisel Mueller
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, February 21, 2023
The Friend Zone
Mary Wollstonecraft’s ideas on what makes a marriage tick were downright radical for their time
By Robert Zaretsky Sunday, February 19, 2023
Justice, Arrested
Joanna Schwartz on the difficulty of holding the police accountable
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, February 17, 2023
“The Dacca Gauzes” by Agha Shahid Ali
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Not Your Parents’ New York Phil
Opening night at David Geffen Hall was an attempt to reconcile with an institution’s past and map out a way for the future
By Vivien Schweitzer Monday, February 13, 2023
Past is Present
Marie Arana on how violence, exploitation, and religion have ruled Latin America’s history—and might portend its future
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, February 10, 2023
Keepers of the Old Ways
Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, January 17, 2025
“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Island Royalty
A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary
By Madison Smartt Bell Monday, January 13, 2025
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut
The Writer in the Family
The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero
By Jonathan Liebson Wednesday, January 8, 2025
The Weight of a Stone
Searching for stability in an erratic world led Oliver Sacks and other writers to the realms of geology
By Megan Craig Thursday, January 2, 2025
