Tag: book reviews

The invisible language of film permeates Christian Kracht’s “The Dead,” prose that is neutral and shot through with so much darkness, you occasionally can’t find the light.

Memoir is always a betrayal. When writing about life in queer subcultures, the harm of honesty can feel even greater.

Michiko Kakutani is interested in how the distinction between fact and fiction has blurred — and how this makes us all complicit.

A lot of women loved Hemingway. Should you?

Ukrainian author and poet Serhiy Zhadan writes about resisting corruption and coping with loss in a society that is spiraling senselessly into conflict.

In the New York Review of Books, Bill McKibben uses his review of David Sax’s new book, The Revenge of Analog to meditate on the enduring joys of playing board games or writing things with paper and pen, and how they keep us grounded in our humanity.

“When it came time for July to speak, she stood up and started singing. She was large-eyed and lithe. I don’t remember what song it was—something she had written herself, I believe. I was startled. Who was this woman?”

In 1961, Joan Didion reviewed J.D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey for The National Review.