Lincoln in the Bardo
The 2017 Man Booker Prize for fiction goes to George Saunders. Liesl Schillinger reviews his prize-winning novel of grief, love…
Liesl Schillinger
Liesl Schillinger is a New York-based writer and translator. She is the translator of The Lady of the Camellias, by Alexandre Dumas Fils, and the author of an illustrated book of neologisms, Wordbirds.
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
One of the foremost chroniclers of the Putin era dives deep into how the trauma of the Soviet era still…
Moonglow
Michael Chabon’s new novel takes an enigma from his grandparents’ lives as the first move in a game with shifting…
The Nix
In Nathan Hill’s debut novel, an apparent attack on a right-wing politician puts a supposed former radical in the headlines,…
How to Be Both
An act of authorial magic crosses the lives of a Renaissance painter and a twenty-first-century teen. Review by Liesl Schillinger
A Brief History of Seven Killings
A haunted and haunting tale of Jamaica’s bloody political struggles turns on the attempted assassination of Bob Marley.