Rumaan Alam
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Zadie Smith Takes on the Pandemic
Lots of writers have done the coronavirus essay. Smith has made a book of them. → Read More
Fear and Loathing in Mumbai
Jeet Thayil’s new novel features a bereaved narrator, depression, and lots of drugs. → Read More
Jeff Sharlet’s Flawed Experiment in Empathy
This Brilliant Darkness wants readers to see strangers as people. → Read More
The Lodge Is a House of Horrors With Nothing Inside
Scary movies can thrill us. Do they also have to mean something? → Read More
Fiasco Tries to Make Iran-Contra a Teachable Moment
In the world of historical podcasts, hindsight is always 20/20. → Read More
Rupi Kaur Is the Writer of the Decade
The young Canadian poet understands better than most of her contemporaries how future generations will read. → Read More
Not Even Tom Hanks Can Save A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Mirelle Heller's film fails to understand its subject—the venerable Mister Rogers—but it still might make you cry. → Read More
Who Run the World? Charlie’s Angels!
The newest reboot of the franchise has a very familiar feminist refrain. → Read More
Honey Boy Is a Taste of Stardom’s Bitter Reality
In Alma Har'el's film, Shia LeBeouf mines his own life—and reminds us how gifted an actor he is. → Read More
Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other Deserves All the Prizes
Unruly and unorthodox (and occasionally uneven), this year's Booker winner grapples with black identity. → Read More
The MAGA Plot
In a subtle new work of autofiction, Ben Lerner takes on Trumpism. → Read More
Years with Yoko
It was 2001 when I first listened to Yoko Ono’s music. I was young and quite stupid and mostly alone. → Read More
The Millions
The only New Year’s resolution I’ve ever kept (sorry vegetarianism!) was 2014’s: to write down every book I read. I’ve stuck with it; thus, I’m able to offer an exact accounting of my 2015 in reading. I can’t quite believe that someone has asked me to do so, but boy am I prepared. I played cultural catch-up, reading books that had been much discussed among my circle (my circle: complete… → Read More
A Novel for the End of the (Publishing) World
Edan Lepucki’s novel, California, will launch next week as one of the most pre-ordered debuts in the history of the publisher Little, Brown. It has become, in recent weeks, an unintentional emblem of the war that Amazon is currently ... → Read More
The Firehose Of Certainty
I recently finished a gig which entailed looking at and writing about the well-appointed homes of various New Yorkers, which made me eager to do something to make my own home more well-appointed. We have glass front bookcases in the ... → Read More