
In the Streets of Barcelona
In Antagony, the Spanish writer Luis Goytisolo attempts to imagine a new sort of novel in which the streets have the force of character and urban topography has its own destiny.
December 21, 2023 issue
Managing Monstrosity
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s new film suggests how matter-of-factly adults force queer children to hide their difference.
December 6, 2023
The Ghost in the Labyrinth
Inspired by the disgrace and silencing of an African novelist half a century ago, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s The Most Memory of Men both satirizes and embraces an overwrought belief in literature.
December 21, 2023 issue
The Emptied Cosmos
Bringing readers on a walking tour of Rome’s churches, Gabriel Pihas argues in a new book that for over a millennium, nature was God’s chief display board.
December 21, 2023 issue
A Leaf or Two from Whitman
The promises and failures of the American twentieth century suffuse Ben Lerner’s new book of poems and Tom Piazza’s new novel.
December 21, 2023 issue
Free from the Archives
Anthony Lewis: A Matter of Character“[Kissinger’s] instinctive preference for right-wing dictatorships involved the United States in their repression and corruption and helped make America the arsenal not of democracy but of authoritarianism.”
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