ESSAY: Notes from the Underground (Railroad): Two Novelists Take on Slavery
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One Definitive Work on the Subject, One that is More Problematic
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ESSAY: Those Naked Donald Trump Statues? They Have a Secret History
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And it Goes Back at Least to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
Read MoreESSAY: Enough Jane Eyre -- It's Time to Move on to a Truly Global Literary Canon
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The Cards Are Stacked Against Non-Western Writers
Read MoreESSAY: Will this 60-Year-Old Norwegian Novel Finally Get the Recognition It Deserves?
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An Underappreciated Scandinavian Work of Genius Finds a New Audience
Read MoreESSAY: If You Loved HBO's 'The Wire,' Here are Some Books that Drill Down Deeper on Race, Class, and Crime (and TV)
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Actors' Memoirs, Academic Studies, and Some Heartfelt Looks at the American Underclass
Read MoreESSAY: Complicated Midwesterners: Garrison Keillor and David Foster Wallace
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Two Writers Who Are a Layered Mix of the Heartland and the East Coast
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ESSAY: Creeping Fascism: Sinclair Lewis Warned Us It Can Happen Here -- and Maybe It Is
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A 1935 Novel with Strong Parallels to 2016 America
Read MoreESSAY: What "Everybody Wants Some!!" and "Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life" Say About Growing Up Male
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A Movie and a Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Memoir that are Wise about What it Means to Become a Man
Read MoreESSAY: Playing Readers for Fools: Game of Thrones, the TV Series, Has Pulled Ahead of the Books
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These are Hard Times for Fans Who Want to Read the Series Before they See It
Read MoreESSAY: We are in a “Camus Moment” — but What Can the Great French-Algerian Author Teach Us About the World Today?
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It's all the rage these days to cite Camus as an expert on colonialism, terrorism, and East-West relations
Read MoreESSAY: Single Ladies, Spinsters, and Women Unbound: The Politics of Female Loneliness
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Feminism and lower marriage rates are not the reasons people are lonely
Read MoreESSAY: What the Supreme Court’s Infamous 1927 Eugenics Decision Tells Us About Filling Justice Scalia’s Seat
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We need fewer justices who instinctively side with the powerful
Read MoreEssay: Patricia Highsmith's "The Price of Salt," The Lesbian Novel That's Now a Major Motion Picture
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The Book's History Reflects Attitudes Toward Lesbians from the 1950s to Today
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ESSAY — Saul Bellow for a New Generation
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