
What It Feels Like When Fascism Starts
A 1933 novel tracks the Nazis’ rise to power in real time.

A 1933 novel tracks the Nazis’ rise to power in real time.

Marguerite Duras’s second novel, The Easy Life, shows that all writing is practice.

What Shirley Hazzard’s life can, and can’t, tell us about her fiction

Scandals have taken a toll, and faith is flagging in Europe and the U.S. But Catholicism isn’t on the wane—it’s changing in influential ways.

Any writer with an interest in probing “American magic and dread”—to borrow a phrase from the novel—is probably in conversation with Don DeLillo, whether or not she knows it.

Amazon and Spotify offer a raw deal for artists.

His two final novels are the pinnacle of a controversial career.

Kevin Wilson’s Now Is Not the Time to Panic features narrators haunted, yet not bound, by troubled pasts.

Before his abuses of power were exposed, he was celebrated as a scourge of Nazis, Communists, and subversives.

We all need a lesson in close reading and a dose of skepticism—especially online.