Elaine Margolin, Author at Book and Film Globe

Michael Cunningham Writes the ‘Unsayable’

July 20, 2026July 14, 2026 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments authors, Bob Dylan, Book Review, Iowa Writers Workshop, Julianne Moore, Ken Corbett, literary memoir, literary nonfiction, memoir, Meryl Streep, Michael Cunningham, Nicole Kidman, Pulitzer Prize, Random House, Stanford University, The Atlantic, The Doors, The Hours, The Paris Review, Unsayable A Life in Writing, Virginia Woolf, writing

The Pulitzer winner for ‘The Hours’ looks back on a life of authorship

BOOKS

Amitav Ghosh Writes a Covid Novel Like No one Else

June 16, 2026June 4, 2026 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Amitav Ghosh, Bengali culture, book criticism, Book Review, Calcutta, climate fiction, contemporary fiction, COVID-19 novels, family sagas, Farrar Straus and Giroux, Ghost-Eye, Gun Island, historical fiction, immigration and identity, Indian literature, international literature, Kolkata, literary fiction, literary novels, magical realism, Manasa Devi, Marwari community, novel reviews, pandemic fiction, Past Lives, reincarnation, South Asian literature, spirituality and religion, world literature

Follow-up to ‘Gun Island,’ ‘Ghost-Eye’ takes us from Brooklyn to Calcutta and back in time

BOOKS Featured Stories Tech

She Is Not a Robot

May 11, 2026May 19, 2026 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments AI, AI and family life, AI and intimacy, AI and journalism, AI and medicine, AI anxiety, AI assistants, AI books, AI ethics, AI parenting, AI relationships, AI therapy, Anthropic, artificial intelligence, automation, book reviews, deep learning, future of AI, generative AI, Google AI, Harper Books, human creativity, Joanna Stern, machine learning, Meta AI, nonfiction books, NotebookLM, OpenAI, Silicon Valley, tech journalism, technology culture, Wall Street Journal, waymo, wearable technology, xAI

Joanna Stern’s book about AI is a fascinating, approachable glimpse of the future

BOOKS Featured Stories

In ‘Transcription,’ Ben Lerner Breaks the Spell of His Mother’s Voice

April 7, 2026April 10, 2026 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments American literature, autofiction, Ben Lerner, book reviews 2026, books about identity, books about language, contemporary fiction, Farrar Straus and Giroux, Jewish writers, literary fiction, new literary releases, novels about family, parent child relationships, psychological fiction, Transcription A Novel

Anyone lucky enough to have read Ben Lerner’s explosive trilogy of first-person novels that straddle the border between fiction and memoir might get the sense that Lerner, though 47, is still a bit of a mama’s boy. These three novels, Leaving the Atocha Station (2011), 10:04 (2014) and The Topeka School (2019) all have male protagonists that are Lerner and yet are not. They love art, language, and poetry, but

BOOKS

A Devotion That Devours

March 17, 2026December 1, 2025 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments erotic fiction, Farrar Straus Giroux, Jewish themes, LGBTQ literature, literary fiction, My Lover the Rabbi, novel review, obsessive love, queer fiction, Rabbi character, Wayne Koestenbaum

Wayne Koestenbaum’s ‘My Lover, the Rabbi’ captures the agonizing beauty of obsessive love — and the man who can’t stop chasing it.

BOOKS

Rebecca, Martha, Emily and Julia

February 24, 2026February 5, 2026 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Edmund Morris, Emily Hahn, Julia Cooke, Martha Gellhorn, Mickey Hahn, Rebecca West, Ronald Reagan, Shao Xunmei

Writing about women writing and how they changed work and the world

BOOKS Featured Stories

Nobel-Winner’s New Novel Finds Freedom in Isolation — and the Lie Beneath It

December 1, 2025December 7, 2025 Elaine Margolin 1 Comment 2025 books, Austrian literature, Farrar Straus and Giroux, Krishna Winston, literary fiction, modernism, Nobel Prize in Literature, Peter Handke, postwar Europe, The Ballad of the Last Guest

Peter Handke turns inward again with his late career ‘The Ballad of the Last Guest’

‘The Story of ABBA’

June 17, 2025June 17, 2025 Elaine Margolin 1 Comment Jan Gradvall, The Story of Abba

Swedish music journalist doesn’t go deep enough inside the music

Music NON-FICTION

‘Waiting For Britney Spears’

June 10, 2025June 16, 2025 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Jeff Weiss, Waiting For Britney Spears

Music journalist Jeff Weiss chronicles his aimless youthful tabloid pursuit of our most troubled diva

Biography

‘The Acid Queen’ Reclaims the Life of Rosemary Woodruff Leary

April 21, 2025April 24, 2025 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Brain on Fire, Psychedelic Refugee, Rosemary Woodruff Leary, Susannah Calahan, The Acid Queen, Timothy Leary

Susanah Calahan’s brilliant new biography brings Timothy Leary’s wife out of the LSD guru’s shadow

NON-FICTION

For the Love of K-Pop

March 18, 2025 Elaine Margolin 1 Comment Giaae Kwon, H.O.T., HYBE, I’ll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan, Min Yoon-gi

Writer Giaae Kwon chronicles a life’s obsession with the world’s most popular music genre

Memoir

In ‘Sucker Punch,’ Scaachi Koul Reveals Too Much, and Also Not Enough

March 11, 2025March 18, 2025 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi Koul, Sucker Punch

True self-reflection is hard when you’re extremely online

NON-FICTION

‘Talk To Me’: No Substitute For the Lack of a Mother’s Love

February 18, 2025February 17, 2025 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Rich Benjamin, Talk to Me

In an incredibly moving memoir, writer Rich Benjamin struggles to come to terms with the lack of affection he received from a social-justice-obsessed family