How “The Memory Police” Makes You See Like Colson Whitehead’s “Underground Railroad” and Mohsin Hamid’s “Exit West,” Yoko Ogawa’s novel transforms a familiar metaphor into imaginative truth. November 6, 2019 Meghan Daum to Millennials: Get Off My Lawn In her latest book, the essayist is skeptical of #MeToo and nostalgic for the era before the Internet. November 1, 2019 The Stark Inequality of Climate Change To survive the climate crisis, Jedediah Purdy argues that we will need to establish “commonwealth” values to animate a way of living and relating to one another that’s not zero-sum. October 17, 2019 An Intimate History of the British Empire In “Imperial Intimacies,” Hazel Carby weaves together the story of colonialism and the story of her family. October 9, 2019 Leslie Jamison and the Anxiety of Authorship How the essayist of uncertainty found a new way into meaning. October 3, 2019 Will American Readers Ever Catch on to Marie-Claire Blais? The French-Canadian novelist—who has lived in Florida for decades—has been writing brilliant, original fiction for more than half a century. September 16, 2019 Caleb Crain’s “Overthrow” and the Power of Literary Form In a novel about Occupy, hacking, and telepathy, the author of “Necessary Errors” makes an unfashionable case for style. August 28, 2019 Taxidermy Is a Metaphor for Our Time How a kitschy art became a symbol of sex, loss, and self-invention. August 21, 2019 How Social Media Shapes Our Identity The Internet constantly confronts us with evidence of our past. Are we losing the chance to remake ourselves? August 8, 2019 The Stories We Tell, and Don’t Tell, About Asian-American Lives A literary critic and a psychotherapist study broken narratives and missing words to understand what a diverse cohort has in common. July 17, 2019
