Contributors
Katy Waldman
Katy Waldman is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Previously, she was a staff writer at Slate, where she wrote about language, culture, and politics, and hosted the Slate Audio Book Club podcast. She is the winner of a 2018 American Society of Magazine Editors award for journalists younger than thirty.
All Work
- Page-Turner
“Valerie” Is an Extraordinary Love Letter to a Radical Feminist
Sara Stridsberg’s insubordinate novel about Valerie Solanas finds a fresh expression of the truism that the personal is political.
August 1, 2019
- Page-Turner
Is the Internet Making Writing Better?
A new book, “Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language,” argues that our richest, most eloquent language is found online.
July 26, 2019
- Page-Turner
How a Novel Can Unmake the Myth of Meritocracy
With “The Gifted School,” by Bruce Holsinger, fiction steps into the breach.
July 16, 2019
- The Current
Democratic Debate 2019: Kamala Harris Is the Best Storyteller on the Democratic Stage
The California senator’s narrative instinct enabled her to frame the most powerful moment of the debate.
June 27th, 11:00 P.M.
- Page-Turner
“Fleishman Is in Trouble” Turns the Marriage Novel Inside Out
Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s début novel belongs to a lineage of books that show the institution of marriage weighing on the spirit, but it also critiques the one-sidedness of these accounts.
June 27, 2019
- Page-Turner
The Invention of the “Beach Read”
A new book unpacks how “summer reading” became a category unto itself.
June 14, 2019
- Page-Turner
In Mark Haddon’s “The Porpoise,” Storytelling Is an Instrument of Violence and Solace
The new novel gives agency—and revenge—to the female characters sidelined by the legend of Pericles and Antiochus.
June 13, 2019
- Page-Turner
People Are Still Getting Married, and This Book Is Here to Help
“Marriageology” doesn’t make a logician’s case for marriage, nor does it articulate the institution’s weird, heavy, persevering glamour.
June 10, 2019
- Page-Turner
In Elvia Wilk’s “Oval,” Earth, Capitalism, and the Human Species Sink Toward Doom
The book feints toward a kind of tragic vision that disguises itself as satire, but it has a warm center in its protagonist.
May 21, 2019
- Page-Turner
Virginia Reeves’s New Novel Explores What It Feels Like When the Mind Breaks
“The Behavior of Love” is carefully developed, pulling the reader toward the incomprehensible, the unintelligible, the question of what’s left in language once sense departs.
May 13, 2019
