Criticism & Features

Patrick Radden Keefe’s Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland is a murder mystery political history. Keefe opens with a scene of two Northern Irish

Given Morgan Parker’s subject matter in Magical Negro—how the black female body moves through the world, how the black body is seen and othered—it is logical that Parker’s interrogation of

At the time Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill came out, some readers had a touch of #metoo fatigue; many had heard just about all they could stand concerning Harvey Weinstein.

When we meet Elwood, he’s a quiet high school student whose greatest act of rebellion is listening to a record album of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches. It’s the

Writing the life of a single intellectual can challenge any biographer. Somewhere the sardonic critic lays in wait, ready to complain about watching paint dry as the hapless writer tries

We’ve been acculturated, especially these days, to what resistance sounds like: group chants, shared slogans, rallying cries from podiums, amplified for the masses. One of the inventions of Ilya Kaminsky’s

“Holbrooke? Yes, I knew him. I can’t get his voice out of my head.” So begins George Packer in Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century,

Before Hanif Abdurraqib can begin talking about the legendary Queens hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest, he has to go back — way back. “In the beginning,” he opens, “from

Never have the consequences of one mistake in judgment — nor the challenges of being a single mother and an artist – been more vividly brought to life than they

Lost Children Archive is at once a compelling, beautifully articulated novel and a profound, unsentimental composition on exile. An estranged husband and wife, along with the husband’s ten-year-old son and