Catalonian Complexities
To the Editors: According to Neal Ascherson, confronted with the challenge of the Catalan separatists’ referendum on independence, which was in violation of the Spanish constitution...
Catalonian Complexities
To the Editors: According to Neal Ascherson, confronted with the challenge of the Catalan separatists’ referendum on independence, which was in violation of the Spanish constitution...
Early Sci-Fi: You Could Look it Up
To the Editors: In her review of Lisa Yaszek’s The Future Is Female!, Nicole Rudick claims that I missed “the forest for the trees” in my...
Early Sci-Fi: You Could Look it Up
To the Editors: In her review of Lisa Yaszek’s The Future Is Female!, Nicole Rudick claims that I missed “the forest for the trees” in my...
How Varian Fry Helped My Family Escape the Nazis
During the year he spent in Marseille, from 1940 to 1941, the American journalist Varian Fry and his colleagues created a rescue network that saved at...
Morris Ernst, Bennett Cerf, and ‘Ulysses’
To the Editors: I read with interest Michael Chabon’s fine piece “‘Ulysses’ on Trial.” While the story was well told, I was profoundly disappointed by its...
The Real Texas
What is Texas? Should we even think about so large and diverse a place as having an essence that can be distilled? Source : The Real...
Bringing Voices Across Oceans: On Grace Talusan’s ‘The Body Papers’
The term “Asian American” is rooted in 1960s political activism but over the past several years, it has been expanded in use. It is now common...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for September 24th, 2019
Sponsored by Baker Publishing Group. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals Archenemies by Marissa...
In Search of an Honest Man
Vasily Grossman believed that writers must, above all, tell the truth as they see it, which was, of course, impossible under Soviet conditions. Early in his...
