“…So much of American media is, As long as we have each other, it doesn’t matter what happens, we’re going to be fine. I don’t always think that’s true. Circumstances can really tear families apart. But, you know, I’m not going to write Succession.” Weike Wang follows up her acclaimed debut novel, Chemistry, with the […]
Alice Kaplan traces one of the 20th century’s most influential works from its roots in Albert Camus’ Algerian childhood to its destination as a touchstone for a philosophy and an era. Review by Steven G. Kellman.
We’d open this post with the obligatory joke about judging books by their covers—but we all do judge books by their covers. For better or worse, it’s our first impression of the author’s work—and a great cover will make us pick up a book as fast as a poor one will make us put it […]
According to famed psychologist Howard Gardner, there is not one measure of intelligence, but nine: Spatial, Naturalist, Musical, Logical-Mathematical, Existential, Interpersonal, Bodily-Kinesthetic, Linguistic, and Intra-Personal. This means that if your goal is truly to become smarter, you have to think in broader terms and do more than plow through a few extra crossword puzzles every week—you […]
From A Clockwork Orange to Lolita, The Stranger to American Psycho, many of the most controversial, gripping novels of the last century are first-person narratives detailing the inner workings of disturbed minds. Our collective obsession with abnormal psychology has brought us entire cable stations devoted to true crime, a flood of television and movie procedurals […]
