The Trumpishness of Ivana
When Ivana Trump insults the President in her new memoir, it’s in the passive manner of a woman acknowledging an enemy at a luncheon.
December 4, 2017
A Brazilian Movie Star’s Novel About Very Badly Behaved Men
Fernanda Torres describes her morbidly funny new book, “The End,” as “an epitaph of the macho.”
November 27, 2017
What the Least Fun Founding Father Can Teach Us Now
James Madison will never inspire a Broadway musical, but his life has unexpected lessons for the age of Trump.
November 22, 2017
“The Autobiography of Gucci Mane” and the Struggle to Be Seen
In his first book, the hip-hop artist tries to retake control of a narrative that has frequently got away from him.
November 17, 2017
In “I’m So Fine,” Khadijah Queen Casts Her Eye on Toxic Masculinity and Celebrity Culture
The poet’s fifth book offers a lyrical guide for maintaining a sense of self in a difficult world.
November 16, 2017
The “Inscrutable” Voices of Asian-Anglophone Fiction
Through the use of first-person narrators, writers are engaging with the enduring stereotype of Asian impersonality in order to overturn it.
November 15, 2017
Who Was Prince in Private?
The musician had the power to make the ordinary aesthetically lush.
November 10, 2017
“A Man and a Woman, Say What You Like, They’re Different”: On Marguerite Duras
The novelist’s assertions have the base facticity of soil and stones, even if one doesn’t always agree with them.
November 10, 2017
How to Hoax Yourself: The Case of A Gay Girl in Damascus
Why Tom MacMaster, a white man and publishing failure from Georgia, pretended to be an Arab-American lesbian.
November 9, 2017
Watching a Poet Join the Bar
The question of whether Reginald Dwayne Betts should be permitted to practice law cut to the center of national conversations about mass incarceration.
November 7, 2017