Liberation Psychology
They were out to get him. It was at once a source of terror and a form of tribute. Frantz Fanon was targeted as an Algerian...
Playing Fast and Loose
Rachel Cusk’s novels are merciless. She believes nerviness and irritation are necessary habits of mind to explore and put down on paper. Difficulty is her bread...
In the Shadow of Slavery
In How the Word Is Passed, Clint Smith evokes the horrors of slavery, from the discovery of the New World through the Civil War, and the...
Thinking Without Banisters
The proliferating crises of the American republic have prompted a revival of interest in the life and work of Hannah Arendt. Her book The Origins of...
White Peonies
This is how it happens, one morningThe ground is only the ground, & thenGreen shoots through the rich brown loam.I learned the word loam when I...
Scenes of the Crime
John Banville’s first novel, Nightspawn, published more than fifty years ago, is set in Greece, which was then ruled by a military junta. The Irish protagonist,...
LEGENDBORN Series is Being Adapted Into a TV Show
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn is a YA fantasy novel, the first in a trilogy, that came out in 2020. It spent nine weeks on the New...
How Long Does a Brewed Pot of Coffee Last?
We’ve all been there: we pour the perfect cup of coffee, take a few sips to wake up, and then get so distracted by morning tasks,...
Virtuoso Signaling
To the Editors: One should have had reason to rejoice that Yuri Slezkine reviewed Maria Stepanova’s In Memory of Memory [NYR, November 18, 2021]. He is...
