Ryu Spaeth
The New Republic
New York, NY, United States
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Past articles by Ryu:
The Shallowness of the Self-Aware Novelist
Andrew Martin’s characters spend a lot of time gently mocking their own privilege. → Read More
The Unsuitable Passions of J.M. Coetzee
The Jesus trilogy is an ambitious, unearthly reckoning with desire and disaster. → Read More
Learning to Love the Mask
Wearing one can save lives. It can also change the way you see the world. → Read More
The President Who Wasn’t There
The message from Donald Trump’s coronavirus press conference was that the buck stops elsewhere. → Read More
Remembering Toni Morrison
Four writers pay tribute to a great American novelist and ground-breaking intellect. → Read More
Gun Culture Has Always Been About White Supremacy
The mass shooting in El Paso reveals the darker undercurrents of the gun control debate. → Read More
The Meaning of Trump’s Historic North Korean Jaunt, in One Image
Theater, thwarted advisers, and a victory for Kim Jong Un → Read More
The Painful Price of Becoming Jackie Chan
A new memoir by the legendary kung fu star reveals what it took to become one of Hong Kong’s greatest sons. → Read More
The Strange Ethics of Killing John Allen Chau
What the violent death of an American missionary on a far-flung island might say about the rest of us → Read More
How Republicans Stole #MeToo
They're speaking the movement's language, but in defense of Brett Kavanaugh. → Read More
The World Beyond Knausgaard
The author of "My Struggle" on political correctness, the weight of history, and why he named his book after Hitler’s memoir → Read More
Naipaul and the World
Criticized as cruel and self-centered, V.S. Naipaul insisted on confronting the hard realities of post-colonial life. → Read More
Gerald Murnane’s Endless Island
What the writer’s unique strain of autofiction says about the Australian condition → Read More
The Madman Summit
Donald Trump. Kim Jong-un. What could go wrong? → Read More
Who’s the Fearless Leader Now?
The Games have always been an exercise in public relations. Trump has only raised the stakes. → Read More
The Tax Bill Spells the End of the Obama Era
How Republicans undid so many of his accomplishments in a single year → Read More
The Gun Control Debate Foreshadowed Trump’s America
The dynamics of the culture wars have caused a persistent helplessness in our politics. → Read More
Why Melville Matters
Jean Giono’s short, unclassifiable book is an ode to "Moby-Dick" and the power of literature to command empathy. → Read More
Maria Bartiromo is unbelievable in this interview with Donald Trump.
The Fox Business Network anchor on Wednesday gave a master class in how to butter up the president, who reciprocated by divulging intimate details of what it was like to order last week’s strike against a Syrian airfield. (“I will tell you, only because you’ve treated me so good for so long,” Trump said, making the transactional nature of the conversation explicit.) The press has already praised… → Read More
Derek Walcott’s Dueling Legacies
When we assess the reputation of a great man, can we still prioritize the work over the life? → Read More