
Jesse Eisenberg: The Inevitable Barrage
The actor and playwright on how to behave online, what he learned as an anthropology student, and his debut short…
The actor and playwright on how to behave online, what he learned as an anthropology student, and his debut short…
Elena Ferrante’s enthralling Neapolitan quartet comes to a close with a novel that closes the circle opened in “My Brilliant…
One of the most influential writers of our time receives her own sweeping 672 page history. Does it capture her…
Fans of novels like “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” and “1Q84” can now trace their author’s current of imagination to his…
Inspired by a posthumous story collection from Lucia Berlin: a list of excellent stories starring proletarians too rarely given voice…
The author of “The President’s Shadow” believes the next great thriller “is being worked on right now by some woman…
As 2015 draws to a close, we revisit some of our favorite pieces from the year, including this conversation between…
A freewheeling alien invasion of Earth – with notes of “Star Wars” and “The Last Starfighter” – from the author…
Talking with the legendary writer of “In the Unlikely Event” about junior high, the winter in which three planes crashed…
For the journalist William Finnegan, the art of catching a wave has served as an analogue to finding the arc…
The author of “Diamond Head” shares her mother’s advice: retain the voices of others when forming your own.
This week: literary critic Harold Bloom turns 85, as questions of what the future holds for “deep reading” loom large.
The prolific author of the Bastables and “Five Children and It” created adventures that still capture the magic of childhood.…
A master storyteller talks to John Freeman about his new memoir of his family, lessons learned from Holocaust survivor parents,…
Porochista Khakpour rediscovers Ben Okri’s Booker Prize-winning novel of Yoruban myth and modern urban struggle.
Vladimir Nabokov began his literary career in the world of Russian exiles in Paris. But it was the U.S. that…
An unlikely marriage kicks off an exuberant satire on race and sexual identity, as well as a turn toward Shakespearean…
The Nobel Prize winner on socio-economic equality, crises in the Eurozone, and what it takes to achieve a fair society.
As the famed duo of air travel take flight, renowned historian McCullough crafts “an uplifting reminder that success lies not…
Grace Bello on the making of an American family, and questions of gender raised in Nelson’s criticism and daring new…