Politics Literature Arts Ideas

Sigrid Nunez

Sigrid Nunez’s most recent novel, What Are You Going Through, was published in September. Her previous novel, The Friend, received the 2018 National Book Award for fiction.  (November 2020)

Nicole Krauss; illustration by Ellie Foreman-Peck

Disorders of the Heart

In her new story collection, Nicole Krauss is at her strongest when she sets aside sensational plot devices and chronicles the everyday.

To Be a Man

by Nicole Krauss

November 5, 2020 issue

Review

Brenda Wineapple

Modernist, Humanist, Compromised Faulkner

Faulkner’s chroniclers have to reconcile the novelist’s often repellent political positions with the extraordinary meditations on race, violence, and cruelty in his fiction.

January 14, 2021 issue