The United States of Dolly Parton
A voice for working-class women and an icon for all kinds of women, Parton has maintained her star power throughout…
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Adam Gopnik on Christopher Clark’s “A Scandal in Königsberg,” and the nineenth-century uproar that has provided a template for every…
Rachel Cusk’s Protest Against Personhood
Becca Rothfeld writes on Rachel Cusk’s new novel, which follows a famous actress and an author trying to write her…
The U.S. Helped Make Europe. Can It Break It?
Ian Buruma reviews “The Rise and Fall of American Europe,” by Glyn Morgan.
Hannah Arendt’s American Education
David Denby reviews “Hannah Arendt: A Life of the Mind,” by Thomas Meyer.
How Golden Is Silence, Actually?
Anthony Lane reviews Kate McLoughlin’s “Silence: A Literary History.”
An Uncompromising Belgian Novelist’s Afterlife as a BookTok Star
Katy Waldman on Jacqueline Harpman, a Belgian Jewish author and psychoanalyst whose fiction has become an unlikely BookTok sensation.
The Myth of the Food Desert
Kelefa Sanneh reviews “Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement,” by Hanna Garth.
The Men Who Made Theory French
Dayna Tortorici writes on Emily Eakin’s new book, a group biography of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Louis Althusser,…
Sometimes It’s O.K. to Let a Language Die
Nikhil Krishnan reviews “How to Kill a Language,” Sophia Smith Galer’s new book on global language loss.