Forget This Book
In The Vulnerables, Sigrid Nunez elegizes what we don’t remember
Whether we remember them or not, the details of life still drive our lingering emotions. ...
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The Little Prince Haunts New York
Following Antoine de Saint-Exupéry from the Ritz to the East River
When I moved to New York, I set out to discover how my new adopted home had influenced that sense of tristesse in The Little Prince, which Saint-Exupéry wrote during his 1941–1943 stay in the city....
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Horror and Humor in Hulu’s The Other Black Girl
The genre-bending drama challenges the white workplace
Based on the bestselling novel by Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl dissects the horror of insidious racism in white workplaces...
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Questioning Art in a Time of War
How the fabric of my sensory experience was transformed by Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitvah
Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah is nominally addressed to Jewish teens in the United States who are preparing for their B’nai Mitzvahs (a gender-neutral rendering of Bat or Bar Mitzvah). It was published in an edition of 3,000 by Wendy’s Subway, an independent Brooklyn publisher, with support from ...
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Artists Against Colonels
In Shades of Resistance, unexceptional people take exceptional risks
Joseph Matthews and Evangeline Riddiford Graham chat about using fiction to unravel fascism, and why the “regime of the colonels” found the Greek underground counteroffensive of poetry and music so difficult to control....
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Nature, Wild Girls, and Putting History in a New Environmental Perspective
In her latest book, historian Tiya Miles explores how some marginalized but eminent American women were shaped by the call of the wild
In her latest book, Wild Girls, Harvard historian Tiya Miles is particularly concerned with how the relationship with nature established by several nineteenth-century women—some prominent, some not—helped them flourish outside of conventional gender roles. ...
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Beyond Colonialism in a Sentimental Mood
Éric Vuillard’s new book punctures the curious French nostalgia for Indochina
Empires tend to create a rosy picture of the past, conveniently ignoring the atrocities they inflicted. Vuillard avoids this trap, in a witty manner. ...
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Helen Schulman in Conversation about Lucky Dogs
Her latest novel explores the nuances and paradoxes of the #MeToo movement ignited by the Harvey Weinstein case
Though Lucky Dogs examines both the #MeToo movement and the nature of civil war (between women, between cultures), Schulman is quick to add that Lucky Dogs is also meant to be funny—as in fact the author is herself....
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Helen Schulman’s New Novel Is a Nail-Biter
Lucky Dogs offers a home for strays
I was a nail-biter in high school. I stopped when I went to college, embarrassed by what now seemed like a childish lack of control. Last week, Helen Schulman’s new anxiety-inducing novel, Lucky Dogs, made me relapse....
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The Hope and Humor of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Early Essays
A timely review of Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt: The War Years, 1939–1945
Helen Schulman's review explores Bashevis Singer's "Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt, The War Years, 1939-1945." The piece highlights Singer's poignant essays, written during World War II, offering a glimpse into his reactions to Nazi atrocities and the erosion of Yiddish culture, and drawing connections to the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict. ...
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Avu Iz Mayn Shmok
An excerpt from Adam Mansbach’s hilarious new novel, The Golem of Brooklyn
An excerpt from Adam Mansbach's new novel, "The Golem of Brooklyn," a hilarious take on an ancient Jewish folkloric tale....
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First He Parks the Golem In Front of a Television
A conversation with Adam Mansbach about his latest novel, The Golem of Brooklyn
In a recent conversation at The New School, history professor Natalia Mehlman Petrzela chatted with writer Adam Mansbach about his new novel, The Golem of Brooklyn (One World, 2023), in which ancient Jewish folklore meets contemporary Brooklyn....
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