Book Review: ‘The Violence,’ by Adriana E. Ramírez
Through accounts of relatives and direct witnesses, Adriana E. Ramírez examines a pivotal, and brutal, period of history.…
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How Parks and Recreation Helped Create the Vision for a Better America
Once Amy Poehler had committed to play Leslie Knope, the lead in Parks and Recreation, the producers began…
The Abyss
Pandaram had risen before dawn. He had bathed at home, streaked himself with sacred ash, drunk his karuppatti…
On the Systematic Annihilation of Gaza’s Educational Future
As a student writing from inside Gaza amid an ongoing catastrophe extending into 2026, I am witnessing how…
Polly Barton on Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s Hell of Solitude
In principle it should be straightforward enough to write an essay about the work of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Here…
A Linguistic and Philosophical Tapestry: Suchitra Ramachandran on Jeyamohan’s The Abyss
India has twenty-two official languages, in addition to numerous other languages and spoken dialects. All of these languages…
The Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
Our favorite criticism of the week includes Scaachi Koul on Lena Dunham’s Famesick, Leora Tanenbaum on Rosa Campbell’s…
Chris Hadfield on Final Orbit, Artemis II, and the Future of Space
Retired astronaut and novelist Chris Hadfield joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss space exploration, geopolitics,…
Thanks to an Old-Fashioned Family Novel, This 22-Year-Old is Already a Literary Star in Europe
Just 22 and still a student, Nelio Biedermann has been compared to Thomas Mann thanks to “Lázár,” his…
Here are the winners of the 2026 Whiting Award for Emerging Writers.
In a ceremony on Wednesday night, the Whiting Foundation announced the ten recipients of the 2026 Whiting Award…