The Modern Voice of War Writing
In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque reinvented a genre.
Book Review
A Novelist Who Looks Into the Dark
Ali Smith scrambles plotlines, upends characters, and flouts chronology—while telling propulsively readable stories.
Hanif Kureishi’s Relentlessly Revealing Memoir
How a tragic accident helped the author find his rebellious voice again
In Search of the Book That Would Save Her Life
Sarah Chihaya’s unconventional memoir charts her troubled relationship with the literature that formed her.
The Hipster Grifter Peaked Too Soon
Kari Ferrell’s memoir is a zippy, intimate account of low-level trickery before the era of scams fully erupted.
Where Han Kang’s Nightmares Come From
In her novels, the South Korean Nobel laureate returns again and again to her country’s bloody past.
A Holocaust Novel Confronts Fiction’s Limits
Lily Tuck’s attempt to bring to life a victim of the atrocity turns her into a prosecutor, not a novelist.
A Palestinian Story Unlike Any Other
In her debut novel, Too Soon, Betty Shamieh isn’t trying to educate or enlighten.
The Saint America Needs Now
Kindness has become countercultural. Perhaps Saint Francis can help.
Apocalypse, Constantly
Humans love to imagine their own demise.