
The Sense of an Ending
On Don DeLillo’s late style.
The Silence
by Don DeLillo
December 3, 2020 issue
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Michael Gorra’s books include Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece and The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War, which was published last summer. He teaches at Smith. (December 2020)
The Sense of an Ending
On Don DeLillo’s late style.
The Silence
by Don DeLillo
December 3, 2020 issue
Constance Fenimore Woolson: Sketches from Solitude
Constance Fenimore Woolson: Collected Stories
edited by Anne Boyd Rioux
July 23, 2020 issue
Young Woman from the Provinces
Benjamin Moser’s ‘Sontag: Her Life and Work’
Sontag: Her Life and Work
by Benjamin Moser
February 27, 2020 issue
A Heritage of Evil
Three books dealing with memory and historical witness
Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil
by Susan Neiman
Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
by Tony Horwitz
Remembering Emmett Till
by Dave Tell
November 7, 2019 issue
Southern Discomfort
Peter Taylor: Complete Stories, Vol. 1, 1938–1959
by Peter Taylor, edited by Ann Beattie
Peter Taylor: Complete Stories, Vol. 2, 1960–1992
by Peter Taylor, edited by Ann Beattie
March 22, 2018 issue
Shaping Stories to Make Sense of Ourselves
The Burning Girl
by Claire Messud
September 28, 2017 issue
Losing the American Tone
Four Novels of the 1920s: The Glimpses of the Moon, A Son at the Front, Twilight Sleep, The Children
by Edith Wharton, edited by Hermione Lee
May 25, 2017 issue
Deep into Green
The history and meaning of a color
Green: The History of a Color
by Michel Pastoureau, translated from the French by Jody Gladding
September 25, 2014 issue
The Brilliant Explorations of Elizabeth Spencer
Starting Over: Stories
by Elizabeth Spencer
May 22, 2014 issue
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