Why don’t men read novels?
The gender fiction gap isn’t as modern as we think
Francesca Peacock
Saturday
Sunday
Evelyn Statsinger’s otherwordly art
The underappreciated artist is getting some well-deserved attention
Thursday
Bob Dylan’s and T.S. Eliot’s search for truth
Eliot lingered in Dylan’s consciousness as he sought to answer the question “what is it?”
Friday
Ocean Vuong’s immature poetry
His latest collection shows the limits of confessional poems
Monday
Don’t cancel John Donne’s poetry
He’s being attacked as a colonialist but his work was far more complex and erotic than that
Thursday
The Stepford Wives and today’s empty feminism
We must begrudgingly acknowledge what the author got right
Friday
Time for Jack Kerouac to hit the road
He and the Beats aren’t nearly as good as annoying young men imagine
Tuesday
Ilya Kaminsky’s poetry in a time of war
Those attacking the Ukrainian-American poet for making light of crisis are misreading him
Thursday
Writing poetry in East Germany
A new book documents how art emerged out of brutality and socialism
Thursday
Reading during a pandemic
There have always been brilliant books limited to small spaces and situations
Tuesday
Siri Hustvedt and saving the personal essay
It doesn’t need to die; it just needs to find a life beyond its author
Thursday
Joan Didion got inside all of us
She was a woman to whom words mattered, whether writing about the Sixties gone wrong or California identity
