August 2021

An HBO docuseries and a new memoir reimagine popular accounts of abusive artists from the perspective of survivors.

Michael Hofmann’s writing is elegant, funny, and very strange, less interested in synthesis than exploration.

The unexpected history (and consequences) of our modern understanding of conscience

In Lebanon, hyperinflation, an influx of refugees, and complete political collapse have created a dangerous crisis.

Biographer Richard Greene draws out the facts behind Graham Greene’s fictions.

Objects in a novel or story are created, chosen, and hand-delivered by the author, and as such they all quiver with meaning.

An excerpt from Randy Boyagoda’s forthcoming novel, ‘Dante’s Indiana’

The terms of service of nearly every app make personal data commercially available.

Biles’s unwillingness to “power through” was a “no” to the sanctification of grit and the legacy of abuse faced by both U.S. gymnasts and Black women.

The U.S. sanctions on Cuba are devastating, indiscriminate, and nearly comprehensive, affecting the daily lives of millions of citizens.