
Exhilarating Antihumanism
Joy Williams’s Harrow, a screwball fantasia of environmental collapse, is mercilessly contemptuous of the pieties of our age.
Harrow
by Joy Williams
December 16, 2021 issue
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Exhilarating Antihumanism
Joy Williams’s Harrow, a screwball fantasia of environmental collapse, is mercilessly contemptuous of the pieties of our age.
Harrow
by Joy Williams
December 16, 2021 issue
Rolling Along
The beauty, eccentricity, and precariousness of life on the river side of the New Orleans levees.
They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans
by Macon Fry
October 7, 2021 issue
American Humbug
“It is very amusing,” P.T. Barnum said, to see how easily people “deceive themselves by being too incredulous.”
Barnum: An American Life
by Robert Wilson
April 23, 2020 issue
Swiveling Man
The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife, 1965–2005
by Zachary Leader
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Downhill Racing
The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump: Essays and Reportage, 1994–2017
by Martin Amis
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Roth Agonistes
Philip Roth’s ‘Why Write?: Collected Nonfiction 1960–2013’
Why Write?: Collected Nonfiction 1960–2013
by Philip Roth
March 8, 2018 issue
Rushdie’s New York Bubble
Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Golden House’
The Golden House
by Salman Rushdie
October 26, 2017 issue
Inside the Sacrifice Zone
Arlie Russell Hochschild’s ‘Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right’
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
by Arlie Russell Hochschild
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The Adventures of George Plimpton
A reader can’t help but be impressed by his accomplishments, despite his efforts to undermine them
Out of My League: The Classic Account of an Amateur’s Ordeal in Professional Baseball
by George Plimpton
Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback
by George Plimpton
The Bogey Man: A Month on the PGA Tour
by George Plimpton
Mad Ducks and Bears: Football Revisited
by George Plimpton
One for the Record: The Inside Story of Hank Aaron’s Chase for the Home Run Record
by George Plimpton
Shadow Box: An Amateur in the Ring
by George Plimpton
Open Net: A Professional Amateur in the World of Big-Time Hockey
by George Plimpton
October 13, 2016 issue
In DeLillo’s Icy Future
In Zero K Don DeLillo has found the perfect physical repository for his oracular visions
Zero K
by Don DeLillo
June 9, 2016 issue
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