Deborah Eisenberg

Their Glorious Façades

Gavin Lambert’s novel The Goodby People captures the serious disorientation of 1960s Los Angeles.

The Goodby People

by Gavin Lambert

September 22, 2022 issue

Condemned to Life

The austerely drawn world of Jacqueline Harpman’s novel I Who Have Never Known Men provides a richly allusive consideration of human life.

I Who Have Never Known Men

by Jacqueline Harpman, translated from the French by Ros Schwartz, with an afterword by Sophie Mackintosh

July 21, 2022 issue

Magic Mountains

The first English translation of Adalbert Stifter’s short story collection Motley Stones brings us into contact with his transporting and ineffable mystery.

Motley Stones

by Adalbert Stifter, translated from the German by Isabel Fargo Cole

October 7, 2021 issue

The Writer’s Mind

“I had to find a way of mapping the swamp of stuff inside your head, which is a constantly changing representation of you plus the whole rest of the world, and how those things fit together.”

August 7, 2021

Poised and Precarious

Despite the ebullience of Anthony Veasna So’s stories, they ask difficult questions about immigration, assimilation, and whether there’s ever such a thing as one’s “own” life.

Afterparties

by Anthony Veasna So

August 19, 2021 issue

Awful But Joyful

In her autobiographical Copenhagen Trilogy, Tove Ditlevsen asks us neither to condemn nor to forgive—only to look.

The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency

by Tove Ditlevsen, translated from the Danish by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman

The Faces

by Tove Ditlevsen, translated from the Danish by Tiina Nunnally

March 25, 2021 issue

Threats Real and Imaginary

November 19, 2020 issue

Tyrannical Days

Dogeaters

by Jessica Hagedorn

June 11, 2020 issue

The Driest Eye

The pure, entrancing, and alarming voice of Natalia Ginzburg

The Dry Heart

by Natalia Ginzburg, translated from the Italian by Frances Frenaye

Happiness, as Such

by Natalia Ginzburg, translated from the Italian by Minna Zallman Proctor

Family Lexicon

by Natalia Ginzburg, translated from the Italian by Jenny McPhee, with an afterword by Peg Boyers

July 18, 2019 issue

Louise Lovely in The Social Buccaneer (1916), from Bill Morrison’s Dawson City: Frozen Time

After the Gold Rush

Bill Morrison’s transfixing documentary ‘Dawson City: Frozen Time’

Dawson City: Frozen Time

a documentary film written and directed by Bill Morrison

August 16, 2018 issue

Robert B. Silvers in his office at The New York Review of Books, early 1980s

On Robert Silvers

Nineteen writers remember The New York Review’s editor.

May 11, 2017 issue

Utility footwear worn on a wartime evening out, London, 1940

Henry Green’s Universe

The experience of reading twentieth-century British novelist Henry Green is far more animating than the ordinary and extends far beyond the usual confines: it can be almost physical, as if the thought or sensation expressed on the page were being generated by one’s own, not the author’s, mind.

October 18, 2016