Has the American novel abandoned God?
Our literary life today speaks of a crisis of faith
Books
Tuesday
The Soviets brought far from home
Kilometer 101 explores political undesirables who were exiled from Moscow
A haunting novel remembers 1990s Ukraine
Explored commonalities between Ukraine and Russia have since erupted into war
Thursday
A glimpse into Anthony Bourdain’s final days
A new book explores his weariness and turbulent relationship with Asia Argento
Saturday
No stone unturned
Jann Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone, has written a very bad book
Friday
Hilary Mantel — a death before her time
English literature has been robbed of one of its most fascinating voices
Tuesday
Porn again
There’s no reconciling the clash between the sex positivity movement and chastity
T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land at 100
A century after its first publication, the poem still defies easy categorization
Paul Theroux’s family values
He’s never been averse to writing about toxic family relationships
A.M. Homes’s state of paranoia
Her latest leaves us stranded between serious fiction and a particularly extreme Reddit forum
The faulty towers of higher education
The college system is broken — can it be fixed?
Frank Buckley’s right direction
Can a socially conservative, economically centrist GOP win elections?
Monday
Reading Flannery O’Connor under quarantine
The great writer wrestles with the questions of our time
The liberal arts are worth defending against ‘multiculturalists’
As the kids head back to school, it’s time to think about what they’re actually learning
Sunday
The unfortunate misogyny of Philip Larkin
When he wasn’t obsessing over pornography, he could be truly insightful and touching
Friday
The attack on Salman Rushdie is an ominous warning
The danger seemed to have passed but extremists continue to plague the world
Wednesday
Blake Bailey deserves to be heard one more time
The disgraced biographer may be ‘repellent’ but he still has a right to free speech
Monday
Evelyn Waugh’s sincerest form of flattery
He had a major but unsung inspiration: the now-neglected novelist William Gerhardie
Henry Kissinger’s likely last book is on leadership
And his biographies of great lives sparkle nicely
Mary Gaitskill and the body electric
Why do we find the dark side of sexuality so terrifying?