David Grossman's New Novel is a Multigenerational Saga About Love and Loss


Daphne Merkin

The Laconic Verses


Will We Ever Understand Addiction?

The Books That Have Gotten Me Through the Pandemic


Roddy Doyle's Stories of Life in Lockdown

The Cult of Saint Joan

He Liked Having Enemies: The contested legacy of D. H. Lawrence


The Cant-Free Elegance of Jenny Diski’s Irresistible Mind


The Afterlife: Revisiting Roth's Promise


Five Best: On Desire Selected by Daphne Merkin

Red Comet: Shifting the Focus From Sylvia Plath’s Tragic Death to Her Brilliant Life


A Very Lonely Business


No Success Like Failure


The Lady Vanquished


The Upside of Anger


Behind the Green Baize Door


A Novel of the 'Post-Wounded Woman'


So We Read On and Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers and Swells


The Genius of Judaism by Bernard-Henri Lévy


Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison


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