Steven Millhauser Brings Kafka to Connecticut
‘Disruptions,’ a book of short stories where “Kafkaesque” moral ambiguity transcends time and geography
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Philip Roth
Memories of the Baseball Borscht Belt
Sportswriter Jerry Izenberg’s memoir of growing up Jewish in Newark in the 1930s
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American Publishing in Censorship Mode
Publishers keep pulling books from shelves, for all kinds of reasons
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The Plot Against Binge-Watching
‘The Plot Against America’ is excellent. But is this what you want to be watching right now?
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The Plot Against Having Sex With Old Philip Roth
‘Asymmetry,’ By Lisa Halliday
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V.S. Naipaul, 1932-2018
A born fighter, who resisted identity politics his whole career, has died
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