Cynthia Ozick
A French Doll
It was not a plaything, a toy baby doll that a child could dress and undress and pretend to scold in a grownup voice.
How Helen Keller Learned to Write
With the help of her teacher, Annie Sullivan, Keller forged a path from deaf-blind darkness to unimaginable artistry.
The Impossibility of Translating Franz Kafka
How do you translate a writer who felt alienated from his own words?
Dostoyevsky’s Unabomber
A new kind of crime is on the American mind—the philosophical murderer who acts out of what he sees as principle. With Raskolnikov, the Russian novelist anticipated it.
A Drugstore Eden
In Pelham Bay, at the end of the Depression, one small plot of land harbored many dreams.
Rushdie in the Louvre
An appearance by Salman Rushdie in the newly renovated Richelieu wing reopens the question of a writer’s right to exist.
A French Doll
It was not a plaything, a toy baby doll that a child could dress and undress and pretend to scold in a grownup voice.
How Helen Keller Learned to Write
With the help of her teacher, Annie Sullivan, Keller forged a path from deaf-blind darkness to unimaginable artistry.
The Impossibility of Translating Franz Kafka
How do you translate a writer who felt alienated from his own words?
Dostoyevsky’s Unabomber
A new kind of crime is on the American mind—the philosophical murderer who acts out of what he sees as principle. With Raskolnikov, the Russian novelist anticipated it.
A Drugstore Eden
In Pelham Bay, at the end of the Depression, one small plot of land harbored many dreams.
Rushdie in the Louvre
An appearance by Salman Rushdie in the newly renovated Richelieu wing reopens the question of a writer’s right to exist.