Kamran Javadizadeh In Between States In Solmaz Sharif’s new collection of poetry, closed doors are everywhere. April 21, 2022 issue
Wendy Doniger Hearing the ‘Ramayana’ Again The centrality and vitality of the Ramayana in Indian culture today, its enormous historical importance and continued use in mythological historicizing, can be only roughly approximated in Europe and America by the Bible. April 7, 2022 issue
Ange Mlinko His Nemesis Was Stupidity Baudelaire thought the scope of his influence would be limited by the perfection of his poetry, which sailed over the heads of the masses. April 7, 2022 issue
Hermione Lee Regarding the Solace of Others Michael Ignatieff’s moving book explores how consolation has been configured in different eras and suggests what we might learn from individual examples of “the human experience.” February 10, 2022 issue
Robert Pogue Harrison Labors of Love Inspired new translations of Dante’s Purgatorio are faithful to its message of rehabilitation, reconciliation, and redemption. December 16, 2021 issue
Anahid Nersessian Knife Skills Winter Recipes from the Collective, Louise Glück’s first collection since winning the Nobel, is a work of extreme concision, in which complicated feelings have been pared down to their minimum. March 24, 2022 issue
Jennifer Wilson The First Russian An unfinished novel about his African great-grandfather provides the best sense of how Pushkin considered his own Blackness. August 18, 2022 issue
Catherine Nicholson Improving Paradise For Milton, innocence was interesting—a significant innovation on his biblical source material. June 23, 2022 issue
