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Gal BeckermanNew Republic |
Does the patron saint of political violence have anything to teach us today? Some ideas exist so far beyond one’s own moral boundaries that to hear...
The Atlantic assembled a list of 136 works of fiction that we consider to be the most significant of the past 100 years. This is an edition of the...
Lily Meyer recommends books that recollect personal experience without being prescriptive. This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’...
Edith Wilson may have been closer to running the country than being a kindly helpmate. This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’...
Why my daughters love rereading Raina Telgemeier’s graphic novels When you’re a parent who loves to read—or as the case is for me, happily,...
Alex Kotlowitz recommends books that manage to operate at a human scale while arriving at bigger truths. Alex Kotlowitz’s There Are No Children...
Hisham Matar’s books are part of a long tradition of writing from a place of dislocation. Exile has always served as a powerful engine for fiction....
One hundred days after Hamas’s attack, looking back at a candid and intense late-night talk with two prominent authors, Joshua Cohen and Ruby...
An author isn’t the only person who brought a finished title to life. My fondness for the acknowledgments section of books runs very deep. Sometimes...
A 2023 novel that revolved around a character getting lost in the wilderness Nature writing has always been a little unsatisfying to me, I’ll admit....
Anthony Tommasini, the former chief classical-music critic for The New York Times, recommends books and music. I love music, but I never learned to...
This year, the awards honored books that resurface previously suppressed history. The National Book Awards, a glitzy affair otherwise known as the...
In her new memoir, Streisand describes the risks involved in making Yentl. In the history of Hollywood schmaltz, few moments quite beat the sight of...
In her new memoir, Streisand describes the risks involved in making Yentl, a movie that was unabashedly feminist and Jewish. In the history of...
I consider its argument almost every day. The literary internet is full of lists that suggest books that will inform you about one subject or...
The Atlantic’s books editor prescribes these titles as antidotes to the quick and dirty ways people are communicating on social media. The Israeli...
A conversation with the Israeli short-story writer about how his country is grieving, and whether writing can ease the pain The war between Israel and...
An open letter signed by famous writers decrying Israel’s response to the Hamas attack shows a startling moral obtuseness. George Orwell is forever...
After the brutal violence committed by Hamas against Israeli civilians, I looked around for my friends on the left and felt alone. “Did they really...
A week ago, Biden National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan sounded optimistic about the region. What a difference a week makes. Just eight days ago,...
A new translation of the epic poem plunges us into the world of the ancient Greeks. At my small liberal-arts college, the freshmen were taught on the...
A new book looks at the “underground historians” of China who are resurfacing moments from the past that authorities would prefer be forgotten....
Loved and Missed shows what child-rearing is really like. When my children were very young, friends standing on the precipice of parenthood would ask...
A conversation with Clint Smith on the moral complexity in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s famous book. Uncle Tom’s Cabin , first published to colossal...
Her life is still being unpacked 60 years after her death. Sylvia Plath lived only to the age of 30—this year marks the 60th anniversary of her...