Confessions of a dissident Jew
Even as their humanity is threatened, Palestinians are using literature to preserve it
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Did Jeffrey Archer ever write a good novel?
The late author’s first-hand knowledge of politics and roguery makes for entertaining reading
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Emmanuel Carrère betrays his parents
The French novelist and screenwriter’s new book is an unsparing yet seductive portrait of his parents
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What is to blame for the Middle East?
Beneath the violence and instability that afflict the region lies not religion but a loss of sovereignty
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The invention of Russian
Troublesome Words: A Cultural History of Russian explores the language’s gruesome history
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Marlon James’s brutal reckoning with Jamaica’s past
His Booker-shortlisted epic confronts homophobia, Aids and violence with exhilarating force
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Joyce Carol Oates contradicts herself
How can the author of 100 books have “no personality”?
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Emma Cline and the perverse silence of dying
Cline’s new novel Switzy follows a wealthy man’s last days as he heads to a euthanasia clinic
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