Ariel Dorfman
A Taxonomy of Tyrants
Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s Strongmen delineates what the last century’s macho dictators have had in common.
May 27, 2021 issue
Promise Miscarried
Christine Smallwood’s The Life of the Mind is a campus novel equally obsessed with the life of the body and with the precariousness of academic life.
May 27, 2021 issue
Russian Metamorphoses
Teffi’s supernatural tales ask what we can understand about the nature of events, and about the transformative moments that thread events together into stories.
May 27, 2021 issue
Arendt and Roth: An Uncanny Convergence
Despite very different lives, the two writers not only knew and liked each other, but also found common cause in the great concerns that animated their work.
May 12, 2021
The Rules of the Confidence Game
The Book of Charlatans provides an unusual glimpse into the street life of medieval Islamic societies rarely captured in more elevated Arabic literary sources.
May 27, 2021 issue
Free from the Archives
Leaving Palestine
In 1999 Edward Said told the stories of his family’s displacement from Jerusalem; of an iron-willed aunt who served as a one-woman mutual aid organization for Palestinian refugees in Cairo; and of “suffering a dissociation myself about Palestine that I have never been able to resolve or fully grasp until quite recently, when I gave up trying.”
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