Sarah Perry on ‘Melmoth,’ Monsters, and Making Her Readers Feel Responsible for Mass Atrocity By Bridey Heing Feature “It was important to me that the ‘villains’ in the book were ordinary people, because readers are ordinary people, and people who do terrible things are often ordinary people.”
What Ever Happened To the Truth? By Bridey Heing Feature Michiko Kakutani is interested in how the distinction between fact and fiction has blurred — and how this makes us all complicit.
The Tyrant and His Enablers By Stephen Greenblatt Feature How is it possible for a whole country to fall into the hands of a tyrant? According to Shakespeare, it could not happen without widespread complicity.