On Reading Proust
Justice Stephen Breyer on Proust, literature, and interpretation.
November 7, 2013 issue
Black Voices, German Song
What did German listeners hear when African American singers performed Schubert or Brahms?
February 10, 2022 issue
‘Don’t Call Me a Saint’
In her lifetime, Dorothy Day rejected canonization for herself. Now revived, this bad idea would only diminish the great founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.
January 26, 2022
In the Beforemath
In his novels Jon McGregor explores the time before and after tragic events, resisting predictable narrative formulas and rescuing moments outside the chain of cause and effect from oblivion.
February 10, 2022 issue
Free from the Archives
V.S. Pritchett: The Self-Inventing Man
In his life Stendhal’s preoccupation with style as a form of tactics was a stumbling block; but in his novels he achieved an eccentric blend of humeur à l’Anglaise, comedy, and High Romance which has never been equalled.
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