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Book Review: ‘The Vulnerables,’ by Sigrid Nunez
Set during the pandemic, Sigrid Nunez’s new novel, “The Vulnerables,” is a story of unlikely companionship and personal reflection.
Milan Kundera: An Appreciation
His best novels, charged with a distrust of authority, retain their sweep and power.
Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89
“All the Pretty Horses,” “The Road” and “No Country for Old Men” were among his acclaimed books that explore a bleak world of violence and...
Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73
In books like “Money” and “The Information,” he created “a high style to describe low things,” as he put it. He found more renown as...
Essay: On Food in Cormac McCarthy’s Novels
His novels are full of food scenes, often in modest digs. Why do they resonate so much?
Book Review: ‘Mr. B,’ by Jennifer Homans
“Mr. B,” by Jennifer Homans, explores the life of the Russian-born choreographer, as well as the beauty and pains of his art.
In Annie Ernaux, a Nobel Laureate Who Plumbs Her Own Passions
The French writer, who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, blurs the line between fiction and memoir with spare prose she has characterized...
Roger Angell, Who Wrote About Baseball With Passion, Dies at 101
In elegantly winding articles for The New Yorker loaded with inventive imagery, he wrote more like a fan than a sports journalist.
In ‘The Letters of Thom Gunn,’ an Unusual Mix of Pleasures
Gunn was not a confessional poet, but he spilled his guts in rowdy, funny, filthy, intensely literate correspondence.
Book Review: Tove Ditlevsen’s ‘The Faces’ and ‘The Trouble With Happiness’
In “The Trouble With Happiness” and “The Faces,” the Danish writer who found posthumous English-language fame with “The Copenhagen Trilogy” writes about women who struggle...
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