Kenneth Roth The Right Fight “The defense of human rights is a hard-ball endeavor, it is not about holding hands and singing kumbaya but about imposing consequences that shift the cost-benefit analysis behind governmental repression.” July 27, 2024
Iris de Moüy La Parisienne “The best way to learn to draw is to look at the world with an endless curiosity.” July 13, 2024
Francine Prose In a Good Way “The contemporary novel is not only alive and well but healthier than ever: as brave, as accomplished, certainly more diverse.” July 6, 2024
Jonathan Lethem Cross-Country Tripping “Even before I ever drove, I was in some sense connected to this resonance with road-tripping by proxy, through the archetypes in literature and cinema, just as I’d become interested in the desert west before I ever got there.” June 29, 2024
Yasmin El-Rifae Enormous Shifts in Consciousness “Palestine was a central part of the development of my political awareness, which was shaped by the cataclysmic American and American-backed aggressions in the Middle East.” June 15, 2024
Darryl Pinckney Outstanding Personalities “Seeing this kind of art again, gathered together, was like a reproach, but also yet another chance to appreciate what I’d failed to early on.” June 8, 2024
Peter Brown A Past in All Its Fullness “From ancient Greece onward historians have stood out against public opinion by offering more truthful versions of what really happened than what was passed on by rumor, prejudice, and popular excitement. This was never popular.” June 1, 2024
Tiya Miles Shadow Drafting “Archival research can be magical, maddening, and sobering. Finding just one mention of an enslaved person’s name or an enslaved family’s home in a record can feel monumental.” May 25, 2024
Joanna Biggs Let It Tumble “I’m drawn always to a certain richness or boldness; I know I’m going to like something if there’s death, sex, and family all in the first fifty pages.” May 18, 2024