Mona Simpson

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

• Mona Simpson
• June 2007 Issue

• Mona Simpson
• March 2007 Issue

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

• Mona Simpson
• December 2006 Issue

In praise of Deborah Eisenberg’s nonchalant sophistication

• Mona Simpson
• June 2006 Issue

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

• Mona Simpson
• April 2006 Issue

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

• Mona Simpson
• December 2005 Issue

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

• Mona Simpson
• December 2004 Issue

Making beds for my employers, I know too much of them. Their bed here, it is like the bed of a seven-year-old: dry, neat, white, what Bing calls pretty princess perfect perfect  

• Mona Simpson
• March 2004 Issue

The rise and fall of a great collaboration

• Mona Simpson
• September 2003 Issue

An outstanding and unusual memoir of post-revolutionary Iran

• Mona Simpson
• June 2003 Issue

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

• Mona Simpson
• December 2002 Issue