Politics Literature Arts Ideas

Sigrid Nunez

Sigrid Nunez’s most recent novel, What Are You Going Through, was published last year. Her previous novel, The Friend, received the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction. (December 2021)

But I Was Young and Foolish

Hermione Hoby’s Virtue is a recent coming-of-age story in which her protagonist, burdened with guilt and yet blessed with psychological acuity and a Nabokovian eye for beauty, reflects ruefully on his young life in New York.

Virtue

by Hermione Hoby

December 16, 2021 issue

‘Lost, at Sea, at Odds’

Jhumpa Lahiri wrote her new novel in Italian, her adopted language, but the greater challenge in Whereabouts was to write about a chronic depressive with seemingly no deep passions or significant relationships.

Whereabouts

by Jhumpa Lahiri, translated from the Italian by the author

May 27, 2021 issue

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