Writing

She manages to pack in more drama and nuance into 160 pages than other authors manage in novels twice that length

In Headshot, fighting is shown to be an essential part of what it is to be a girl, an undeniable, animal part of femininity

The writer was right. Until August isn’t worthy of him and should probably have been left in the archives

The stories are world-hoppers, set in Italy, America, Siberia, Krakow and Berlin

It’s hard to say what Parasol Against the Axe is about

It seems predictable that criticism of Green Dot will focus on whether its heroine’s behavior is alienating or anti-feminist

Andrew Drummond’s marvelous romp of a biography aims to free the revolutionary from his detractors

Anne Carson’s latest is a collection of writings about different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guantanamo, Flaubert and snow

Andrew Stauffer has approached what would otherwise be a fairly standard life of the poet through an unusual prism

How William Jones’s groundbreaking argument in favor of ‘Asiatic poetry’ captivated Europe’s men of letters

The Book of Love, her debut novel, brilliantly takes on fantasy tropes

Thank goodness she has got this difficult book out of the way

It’s unfashionable to talk about money, but a good income can be made

The campus novel, which no one under forty-five will have heard of, celebrated the absurdities of academics