Familiar Strangers: On Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Whereabouts” Whereabouts is a beautiful novel by Jhumpa Lahiri, but it wasn’t written by the same Jhumpa Lahiri. This is a book by a different… Read More →
Leanne Shapton’s Hyper-Modern Ghost Stories In Guestbook, writer and artist Leanne Shapton meditates on conflicting definitions of the word “ghost,” both the noun and the verb, and what truly haunts… Read More →
How Leonard Cohen and Emily Dickinson Led Me Through Dark Days I’m not sure what came first—the depressing music, an all-black wardrobe, or Emily Dickinson. Read More
Book Review: A 10-year-old girl puzzles out mystery of her ‘sleepswimmer’ mother’s death “Rabbit Cake,’’ Annie Hartnett’s darkly funny and soulful debut, follows Elvis as she struggles to puzzle out her… Read More →
Book Review: Untangling the complex lives of Mill Valley teens after a suicide In Lindsay Lee Johnson’s piercing debut, “The Most Dangerous Place on Earth,” a private high school is… Read More →
Sweetbitter: Talking with Stephanie Danler about Dinner Service and Desire “Whether you get into publishing, fashion, finance—that becomes your way of experiencing New York City. Who you were before is… Read More →
In Bloom: Talking with Susan Orlean about the Floral District and Meditative Gardening “It felt like what made the city, in some ways, really unique—that sense that huge quantities of… Read More →
At the Brooklyn Book Festival, the Unending Pleasures of Reading Inside the stately Borough Hall Courtroom, surrounded by solemn emblems of the law, panelists Tananarive Due, Patrick Somerville, and Colson… Read More →
The Exchange: Justin Vivian Bond The years before Justin Bond acquired a “Vivian” and turned V’s self into a world-class performer are the story of “Tango,” a witty and touching… Read More →
The Soundtrack of Our Books: Books as Objects and Torch Ballads and Jukebox Museic Listening to music has always been an organic piece of literary consumption, but recent trends suggest… Read More →