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Review: Christian Caryl on Elaine Pagels and Paula Fredriksen

Diary: Jean McGarry, New glasses

Review: Sarah Chayes on Robert Macfarlane, “Is a River Alive?”

Douglas Bauer on Julie Otsuka

Review: Anthony Domestico on Susan Choi

Review: Padgett Powell on “Wildcat,” a film about Flannery O'Connor

Review: Edward Mendelson on a new edition of Virginia Woolf’s Diaries

Announcing Our Summer 2025 Partner Bookstore: Page & Palette in Fairhope, Alabama!

Review: David Stromberg on Chaim Grade

Review: Anna DeForest on Yiyun Li’s “Things in Nature Merely Grow”

Review: Barry Yourgrau on Nellie Campobello

Diary: J. M. Coetzee, (2) Mother Tongue

Diary: J. M. Coetzee, (1) Mother Tongue

Review: Geoffrey O’Brien on ”The Third Reich of Dreams”

Notebook: Monuments

Review: Sarah Ruden on Rebecca West

Review: Joy Williams on Studying Animal Grief

Review: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc on Arlie Russell Hochschild’s “Stolen Pride”

Review: Michael Robbins on Trash

Notebook: (2) Dismantling the Ideas Infrastructure

Notebook: (1) Dismantling the Ideas Infrastructure

Diary: W. G. Sebald on Literature after Fascism

Back at the Wheel

Thank you, and welcome to our Reader’s Circle!

Review: Mona Simpson on Lewis Hyde

Diary: Jamaica Kincaid, The Kind of Gardener I Am Not

Review: Adam Hochschild on an Unsung Nazi Resistance

Diary: Wendell Berry, The Writer Going Home

Notebook: On the Road with Bookmobiles

Review: Padgett Powell on Charles Willeford, Known Pulpist

Letter to Readers

Review: Christian Caryl on the Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement

Notebook: Listening Session

Review: Michael Robbins on a new Baudelaire

Diary: Laura Kolb, From the Literary Annals of Women’s Deceit

Review: Cynthia Zarin on Mavis Gallant

Notebook: How Do Your Novels Grow?

Review: (2) Ian Frazier, Tales of Adventure for Boys

Review: (1) Ian Frazier, Tales of Adventure for Boys

Diary: (2) Andrew Hui on the Birth of the Private Library

Diary: (1) Andrew Hui on the Birth of the Private Library

Review: Àlvaro Enrigue on Antonio di Benedetto

Notebook: (2) Letting the Dogs Out

Notebook: (1) Letting the Dogs Out

Diary: Barry Yourgrau, Three Stories