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Issue January 2009

Imperfect Union

A brilliant new book probes the intimate, unequal relationship between Virginia Woolf and the woman who cared for her.… More »

Issue June 2007

If This Is a Man

Primo Levi’s Holocaust memoirs stand among the best literature of the 20th century, but his greatest creation was himself.… More »

Issue March 2007

Fiction

A review of Tales of Chekhov … More »

Issue December 2006

True North

A career-spanning anthology reveals again why Alice Munro is the living writer most likely to be read in a hundred years… More »

Issue June 2006

New York State of Mind

In praise of Deborah Eisenberg’s nonchalant sophistication… More »

Issue April 2006

Found in Translation?

A new version of War and Peace seeks naturalism through slang— a questionable tack with a book whose originality is not its language… More »

Issue December 2005

Serf Advisory

A practical guide for hired help, from the eighteenth century to ours… More »

Issue December 2004

The Minister's Tale

Marilynne Robinson's long-awaited second novel is an almost otherworldly book—and reveals Robinson as a somewhat otherworldly figure herself… More »

Issue September 2003

"Loosie!"

The rise and fall of a great collaboration… More »

Issue June 2003

Book Group in Chadors

An outstanding and unusual memoir of post-revolutionary Iran… More »

Issue December 2002

Coming of Age on Long Island

Child of My Heart represents a radical—if characteristically quiet— departure in Alice McDermott's fiction… More »

A Quiet Genius

Alice Munro is the living writer most likely to be read in a hundred years… More »

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