Where Han Kang’s Nightmares Come From
In her novels, the South Korean Nobel laureate returns again and again to her country’s bloody past.

In her novels, the South Korean Nobel laureate returns again and again to her country’s bloody past.
In a new novel, France’s famously abrasive author progresses from barbed satire to a spiritual-conversion narrative.
Long a fearless critic of Israel, Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi has made wrenching portraits of her nation’s suffering since October 7.
His parables aren’t supposed to make sense.
A close look at the words being shouted at protests on campuses across the country reveals why some see the pro-Palestinian cause as so threatening.
The brilliant novels of Helen Garner depict her generation’s embrace of freedom, but also the sad consequences.
In her hands, scripture becomes a precursor to the novel.
George Eliot took up the question of Jewish self-determination in her last novel, Daniel Deronda, and arrived at a surprising answer.
In a haunted novel, memories of a brutal past transform bodies as well as psyches.
In her new novel, The Vaster Wilds, the writer tells the story of a girl escaping a colonial outpost and finding herself enveloped in the natural world.