Judith Shulevitz
She has been a columnist for The New York Times Book Review, Slate, New York magazine, and The New Republic. She was a founding editor of Slate and Lingua Franca, and a senior editor at New York and The New Republic. Her book, The Sabbath World, was a New York Times notable book, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, and a recipient of the American Library Association’s award for Jewish literature. She is working on a book for the Yale Jewish Lives series.
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Benedict Evans / August The Miraculous Salman Rushdie
His enchanting new novel is a triumph.
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Matt Chase / The Atlantic; Getty He’s Tweeting for His Life
Hanif Kureishi’s tweets from his sickbed are a bravura performance that is no performance at all.
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Courtesy of Ted Conover Little House on the Prairie—With Meth
In his new book, Ted Conover moves to a remote valley in southern Colorado to experience 21st-century life off the grid.
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Paul Fusco / Magnum The Problem With Mothers and Daughters
In new books, the writers Elizabeth McCracken and Lynne Tillman look back at the fraught ends of their mothers’ lives.
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Armando Veve Orhan Pamuk’s Literature of Paranoia
Living in Turkey has made the author a master of the genre.
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Andrea Artz / laif / Redux Hilary Mantel’s Art Was Infused With Her Pain
The death of the British novelist is occasion to remember her genius as well as the chronic illness that shaped her work.
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Pamela Guest Tracy Flick vs. Toxic Masculinity
Tom Perrotta reassesses his ’90s antihero.
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Linda Merad The Smutty Mystic
What everyone gets wrong about Sheila Heti’s fiction
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Illustration by Marisa Maestre. Sources: Jillian Edelstein / … W. G. Sebald Ransacked Jewish Lives for His Fictions
Why did he lie about his sources?
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Illustration by Oliver Munday; image by History and … I Found the Feminism I Was Looking For in the Lost Writings of a 17th-Century Priest
François Poulain was ahead of his time—and ours.
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Bob Peterson / The LIFE Images Collection / … If the Author Is a Bad Person, Does That Change Anything?
Blake Bailey, who wrote Philip Roth: The Biography, has been accused of sexual crimes.
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Na Kim The Radiant Inner Life of a Robot
Kazuo Ishiguro returns to masters and servants with a story of love between a machine and the girl she belongs to.
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Michael Ciaglo / Getty Protests Won’t Be Enough to Stop a Coup
Resistance requires a lot more strategy.
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Getty / The Atlantic An Election Without Chaos Will Be a Miracle
This year, I trained to work at the polls. I’m sure I’ll screw up.
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Tim Enthoven A New Theory of Western Civilization
Could a marriage policy first pursued by the Catholic Church a millennium and a half ago explain what made the industrialized world so powerful—and so peculiar?
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Aaron Marin Hilary Mantel Takes Thomas Cromwell Down
As the author’s remarkable trilogy ends, her epic hero’s self-mastery is newly in doubt.
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Edmon de Haro Why You Never See Your Friends Anymore
Our unpredictable and overburdened schedules are taking a dire toll on American society.
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Roberto Parada Alexa, Should We Trust You?
The voice revolution has only just begun. Today, Alexa is a humble servant. Very soon, she could be much more—a teacher, a therapist, a confidant, an informant.
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Rune Fisker Why Is Dating in the App Era Such Hard Work?
Finding love in the postromantic, postmarital age
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Pierre Mornet The Brontës’ Secret
The sisters turned domestic constraints into grist for brilliant books.
