How to Thrive in a Dying World
C Pam Zhang’s new novel is a bold encouragement to pursue one’s desires.
Book Review
The Smartest Man Who Ever Lived
A novelist transforms the physicist John von Neumann into a scientific demon.
What Emily Wilson’s Iliad Misses
Her new translation is inviting to modern readers, but it doesn’t capture the barbaric world of the original.
The Overlooked Danger That’s Massacring Wildlife
A new book argues that there’s nothing worse for wild animals than cars.
The Undoing of a Great American Band
Sly and the Family Stone suggested new possibilities in music and life—until it all fell apart.
Why Are Women Freezing Their Eggs? Look to the Men.
A new book explores the “mating gap” and why women are struggling to find a male co-parent.
From Feminist to Right-Wing Conspiracist
What Naomi Wolf’s odyssey can teach us about seeing patterns where they don’t exist
George Eliot’s Subversive Vision of Marriage
Unlike Jane Austen, the novelist was most interested in what happens after “I do.”
Fiction on Trial
Zadie Smith’s ambitious new novel asks: Do we expect the genre to do too much?
The Women Writers Who Destroyed Their Own Work
The act can be the result of a fevered impulse—or a display of ferocious will.