More sayable than you think
Andrew Brower Latz on whether the Holocaust demands silence
Light Puppets
Robert Minto on Sjón's Moonstone
Read, Write, Love
Rohan Maitzen on Jhumpa Lahiri's Italian journey
Show Queens
Michael Adams on the stars of Broadway's Golden Age
Single Occupancy, Lots of Sunlight, Water Included
Steve Donoghue on the search for extraterrestrial life
Light Puppets
In Moonstone, Icelandic author Sjón tells a story of 1918 Iceland through the longings and alienation of a sixteen-year-old orphan named Mani. Robert Minto reviews.
Read, Write, Love
When Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri abandons English for Italian, she learns as much about herself as about her new language.
Show Queens
Two new books – a biography of one of Broadway’s brightest stars and a memoir from one of its lesser lights – bring the world of American stage and screen vividly to life.
Single Occupancy, Lots of Sunlight, Water Included
For a century, humans have been searching for any sign of extraterrestrial life, intelligent or otherwise. A new book tells the story of that quest – and keeps its geeky hope alive.
More sayable than you think
Carolin Emcke, a German social critic, continues the debate: does the holocaust demand silence? Andrew Brower Latz reviews.
Irritated by the Noise of Kathmandu
The stories in debut author Alexander Weinstein’s collection portray a near-future world of intrusive personal techology – a world that every day resembles our own a bit more. Dalton Gentry reviews.
It’s a Mystery: “Fear is the parent of cruelty”
The French countryside, the death-camp of Auschwitz, and a mansion in County Cork – a trio of new mystery-thrillers takes readers on exotic ventures in search of justice – or payback.
From the Archives: About Poems
“The family got the majority of their ideas about families from black and white films. They tried to replicate every important detail exactly”
From the Archives: Hot and Cold
Distance is complicated: it measures intimacy, but in unpredictable ways. Rebecca Solnit’s evocative new book explores the meaning of distance and closeness.
From the Archives: Pros Take On the Cons
A con man, an ambitious office boy, and two Mormons–it sounds like the set-up to a punch line. But is the joke on Broadway? Our theater critic examines the “why” of musicals, the limits of Harry Potter, and the perfidy of Canada.
Book Review: Tamil
A dense yet lyrical new book tells the long, intricate life story of the Tamil language and Tamil literature
Norman Lebrecht’s Album of the Week – Lang Lang: New York Rhapsody
A bizarre “crossover” album combines pop songs, fragments of Andrew Copland, Gershwin, and a dual performance by Lang Lang and Herbie Hancock. So how New York is this album?
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