Maya Chung

Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain offers a unique antidote to contempt and despair.

Alan Hollinghurst’s and Lore Segal’s later writing takes two different approaches to growing old.

E. B. White was accustomed to slaughtering pigs, until one stole his heart.

A new memoir shrewdly captures the upheavals of the past eight years.

There’s no reason to agonize over the titles you don’t finish.

Mary Gaitskill’s 2019 novella, This Is Pleasure, makes readers consider whether including male voices can help us understand women’s stories.

What everyday plants can teach us about history

Published works of fiction by nonwhite authors more than doubled from 2019 to 2023—but we may now be seeing a reversal in this trend.

Two new literary works from Colombe Schneck and R. O. Kwon feature fascinating, flawed women.

Through verse, we can perhaps come closest to capturing events that exist beyond our capacity to describe.