Not so, according to Hemingway. Conrad is “very skillful,” he tells Breit in the June 11th letter, but “he would never convince the boys.” The “Matador” author photo shows Conrad by a... Read more »
Twice in the last five years, the Swedish Academy has awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to a woman who takes eros seriously: Annie Ernaux, in 2022, and, now, Anne Carson. Each... Read more »
“Lázár” moves quickly, scarcely leaving readers time to settle into one moment before whisking them off to the next. How else could it race through the most eventful half century of European... Read more »
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In “Elise and the New Partisans,” a graphic novel set to be published in English for the first time this month, Jacques Tardi’s cartoonlike characters—depicted in realistic, harshly lit, black-and-white Parisian street... Read more »
“The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book” by Alice B. Toklas Last summer, I visited Père Lachaise Cemetery, in Paris, for the first time. It was not the first visit for the man... Read more »
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. For centuries, the bildungsroman, or novel of education, has offered a window into a... Read more »