Books & Fiction: Chang-rae Lee Lets Loose in “My Year Abroad”
Plus: how Susan Taubes’s “Divorcing” is literature that looks beyond life; and new poetry by Maurice Manning and Sarah Holland-Batt. View in browser | Update your preferences
What happens when a master of restrained realism discovers the allure of exuberant excess?
By Alexandra Schwartz
Essays & Criticism
Under Review
“Divorcing” Is Literature That Looks Beyond Life
How Susan Taubes wrote about the problem of being.
By B. D. McClay
Books
Briefly Noted Book Reviews
“The Unusual Suspect,” “Unsolaced,” “The Prophets,” and “Fake Accounts.”
PAID POST
2021 Caldecott Medal Winner and New York Times Bestseller
Powerful. Stunning. Hopeful. From Indigenous author-illustrator team Lindstrom and Goade comes a passionate call to protect our environment. With rich illustrations of cosmic skies and lush lands, this timely story will educate and inspire generations to come.
Poetry
Poems
“Turner”
“It isn’t always beautiful, / the voice, the time, the foggy scene.”
By Maurice Manning
Poems
“The Gift”
“He has been waiting seventeen years to open it / and is impatient.”
By Sarah Holland-Batt
The Writer’s Voice
The Writer’s Voice: Fiction from the Magazine
Jhumpa Lahiri Reads “Casting Shadows”
The author reads her story from the February 15 & 22, 2021, issue of the magazine.
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The Mysteries and Motifs of Pandemic Dreams
With the whole world preoccupied with a virus, a researcher and an animator asked: What do dreams look like when the source of distress is invisible?
By Linnea Feldman Emison
The Art World
When a Museum Feels Like Home
As a tyro critic in the nineteen-sixties, I fell for the works in the Frick one by one, learning from my response to the art before knowing much about it.
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