To Write as They Played
Sarah Moorhouse reviews Susan Tomes’s new collective biography, “Women and the Piano: A History in 50 Lives.”
Sarah Moorhouse reviews Susan Tomes’s new collective biography, “Women and the Piano: A History in 50 Lives.”
Brittany Menjivar can fly: straight from La La Land to Never Land, for the revamped “Peter Pan” production at the Pantages.
Jenessa Abrams reviews Sarah Manguso’s “Liars” in the wake of Andrea Skinner’s revelation about her sexual abuse and her mother Alice Munro’s silence.
Rob Latham reviews Peter Bush’s new translation of Honoré de Balzac’s novel “The Lily in the Valley” for NYRB Classics.
Hamilton Cain reviews the prolific Irish author Kevin Barry’s new literary Western, “The Heart in Winter.”
Daniel Blank reviews James Shapiro’s “The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War.”
In the latest installment of Screen Shots, Michael Szalay reviews season three of FX’s “The Bear.”
Marissa Grunes reviews Renée Bergland’s “Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science.”
Gaby Del Valle reviews Kimberly Meyer’s “Accidental Sisters” and Susan J. Terrio’s “Forced Out.”
Rowland Bagnall reviews the recent rerelease of Bernadette Mayer’s “Memory.”
Editors Dayna Tortorici and Mark Krotov join Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to speak about 20 years of the magazine “n+1,” as well as their new anthology “The Intellectual Situation: The Best of n+1’s Second Decade.”
Lori Marso reviews Catherine Breillat’s film “Last Summer” in the context of the director’s body of work, as well as alongside the recent Miranda...
Ilana Masad interviews Emma Copley Eisenberg about her first novel, “Housemates.”
Everybody’s got something to hide except Madeleine Connors and her monkey (at Roaring Nights at the L.A. Zoo).
In the second essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Aubrey Clayton excavates the troubling correlation between the birth of statistical methods...
Elvia Wilk interviews Jennifer Kabat about her new book, “The Eighth Moon: A Memoir of Belonging and Rebellion.”