Ben Lerner | The New York Review of Books

The Rescue

September 21, 2023 issue

The Faces of Victor Serge

The radical writer’s novels are unsettling explorations of the tension between individual and collective life.

Last Times

translated from the French by Ralph Manheim, edited and with an introduction by Richard Greeman

The Case of Comrade Tulayev

translated from the French by Willard R. Trask, with an introduction by Susan Sontag

Unforgiving Years

translated from the French and with an introduction by Richard Greeman

Birth of Our Power

translated from the French and with an introduction by Richard Greeman

Memoirs of a Revolutionary

translated from the French by Peter Sedgwick with George Paizis, with a glossary and notes by Richard Greeman, and a foreword by Adam Hochschild

Notebooks, 1936–1947

translated from the French by Mitchell Abidor and Richard Greeman, and edited by Claudio Albertani and Claude Rioux

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January 19, 2023 issue

Meridian Response

July 21, 2022 issue

Force of Gravity

Steffani Jemison's videos activate questions of visibility and knowability, of the relation between exterior and interior, with an astonishing economy of means.

Steffani Jemison: Broken Fall

an exhibition at Greene Naftali, New York City, November 4–December 4, 2021

December 16, 2021 issue

Unknown Sources of Lift

"I think there's an understandable but perilous tendency to conflate art and artist when the artist in question uses autobiographical elements in their work."

October 9, 2021

The Storyteller

W.G. Sebald’s books suggest that we are powerless to remember adequately and powerless to forget.

Speak, Silence: In Search of W.G. Sebald

by Carole Angier

October 21, 2021 issue

The Lights

July 22, 2021 issue

Past Imperfect

Erica Hunt's Jump the Clock is eerily appropriate for a time when a pandemic has suspended the normal temporal rhythms for so many of us, while laying bare our mortally uneven relationship to those rhythms.

Jump the Clock: New and Selected Poems

by Erica Hunt

February 25, 2021 issue

The Son

November 19, 2020 issue

The Rose

a poem

July 23, 2020 issue

Les Marronniers

a poem

September 26, 2019 issue

The Pistil