Books, Arts, and Culture

After getting so much buzz for a debut novel, there can be a lot of pressure on the second one. We’ve all heard of the “sophomore...

We all (a lot of us anyway) know and love the Harry Potter series. One of the best parts of said series are all the quirky, charming,...

For starters, I want to give a big shout out to Jessica Pryde who introduced the idea of Romance Tropetonite, and without whom this obsessive, long-ish...

I can’t believe it’s been two years since Carrie Fisher died. She seems more necessary and vital than ever, and I’d like to think her spirit...

To the Editors: Jed Rakoff’s interesting review of Joel Richard Paul’s new biography of John Marshall suggests that Marshall’s opinion in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831)...

Part I: Creating Your Goals I imagine that most people’s bookish New Year’s resolutions revolve around an amount of reading such as “read x number of...

To the Editors: Stephen Greenblatt contrasts to ill effect Catholic punishment in the afterlife with that of what he alleges is the rabbinic version. According to...

To the Editors: As The Washington Post’s correspondent in Paris, I have interviewed a number of the characters Mark Lilla cites in his essay “Two Roads...

I interview Ottessa Moshfegh at Caffe Vita, in Silverlake, earlier this month. Her novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation has been lauded as one of...

I moved to New York in 1992 to be an artist and fell into walking dogs for a living when my half-sister, Moira, convinced me it...