Danielewski, it seems, is not acting as a writer here, but as a hoarder of phrases, the more redolent of a vanished “Western” ...

Firms like Philip Morris hold rights that exceed those of most humans. Estates speak for the dead. Trusts speak for the ...

All factories are alike; each unhappy worker is unhappy in their own way. For the British-born, Ireland-resident author ...

Max Lawton is a writer, musician, and translator. He is currently working in close collaboration with Vladimir Sorokin to ...

During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration conducted thousands of interviews among American workers. Anne Trubek's “American Made” gives them new voice.

Utilitarian public baths and pools once filled the world’s cities, but now new expensive spas are taking their place. Has even bathing become a luxury?

What were the books of 2024 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us? For this, the 12th-annual edition of Public Picks, section editors for Global Black History, Literary Fiction, Borderlands, ...

Given Meursault’s unreliable narration and narrative interiority, The Stranger proves challenging to adapt. While the first-person novella suggests Meursault’s attitudes and philosophies brand him the ...

The boxes were stacked en masse outside our door, addressed in my mother-in-law’s exquisite handwriting. We had been warned. Our friends had also experienced the phenomenon of aging parents cleaning ...

Avi Shlaim, historian and influential scholar of Israel’s relationship with the Arab world, joins John Plotz and Yuval Evri ...

Hazem Almassry is Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Hazem is from Gaza. His research spans politics, culture and identity in the Middle ...