Uncredited
No breakout leads—a prisoner of reruns on local stations high up on the dial: a stray recurring role, a guest appearance on Perry Mason. Later, Rockford...
Awful But Joyful
By the time Tove Ditlevsen committed suicide in 1976, she was one of Denmark’s most popular and acclaimed writers. In the fifty-eight years of her life,...
To Forget and Survive
I started reading Inheritors, Asako Serizawa’s collection of interlinked short stories—which spans five generations but always comes back to Japan’s wartime trauma—a few days after the...
Birds Do It Better
To the Editors: Buried in Robert O. Paxton’s otherwise fascinating article about birds [“Intrepid Navigators,” NYR, February 25] is a seriously misleading statement about humans: “Birds...
Writing While Parenting
To the Editors: In her wonderfully affecting discussion of women writers and their relation to being, or to not being, mothers, Daphne Merkin writes that “tackling...
Integration vs. ‘Choice’
To the Editors: In her insightful review essay “The Dark History of School Choice” [NYR, January 14], Diane Ravitch alludes to southern states in the 1950s...
8 Books That Show Maine in All of Its Complexity
When people “from away” learn I’m from Maine, most respond in one of two ways: they tell me they’ve never been here, but it’s high on...
This Novel About Ebola Can Teach Us How to Recover from Covid-19
A virus outbreak makes us aware of the presence of death in our lives. Or one could say that the threat of a virus makes us...
10 Riveting Thriller Novels to Read in 2021
This year will bring no shortage of riveting thrillers to add to your TBR list. Whether you prefer a locked-room mystery or a family crime saga,...
#SuperheroProblems: So You’re a Weird Animal Thing Now
Comic books thrive on gimmicks. They entice readers with covers that may or may not accurately reflect the book’s inner contents, but at any rate, they...
