Review: Sarah Chayes on Wade DavisIn an excerpt from her review in Book Post, Sarah Chayes follows Wade Davis as he meanders down the history of Colombia’s Magdalena River.Dec 1, 2020Dec 1, 2020
Review: Sarah Chayes on Amaryllis FoxIn an excerpt from her review for Book Post, Sarah Chayes shares what troubled her about Amaryllis Fox’s new memoir.Jan 31, 2020Jan 31, 2020
Review: Àlvaro Enrigue on Argentina’s Roque LarraquyDuring the late fall of 1987, in the years in which the new Argentine democracy was being reshaped after a decade of brutal right-wing…Oct 1, 2019Oct 1, 2019
Diary: On the Occasion of His Birthday, Novelist César Aira Makes a PlanI used to write with the sole aim of producing work of high quality: good novels, better than others, etc. The reasons for wanting to do…Sep 24, 2019Sep 24, 2019
Notebook: DIY BooksOn April 24, 2019, at 9 AM, the owner of the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge powered up the above Rube Goldberg device, and kept it running…Sep 16, 2019Sep 16, 2019
Diary: Lucy Ellmann, On Not Going Into BookstoresI know how impossibly brave it is to run a bookstore in this rudderless, readerless age. I applaud people for persisting with it…Sep 8, 2019Sep 8, 2019
Diary: Octavio Solis, Saturdays in JuárezListen to that. That’s Juárez you hear. That is where we are once a month on Saturdays. Riding along la Avenida de las Américas with that…Sep 4, 2019Sep 4, 2019
Review: Joy Williams on Richard Powers’ “The Overstory”The novel concerns itself with our human drama — it always has. The intrigues, the misunderstandings, the passions and illusions. The…Aug 26, 2019Aug 26, 2019
Diary: Meghan O’Geiblyn, on Writing the MidwestThe essayist Meghan O’Gieblyn grew up outside of Detroit. She reflects on how the Midwest became her subject even as she tried to leave it…Aug 19, 2019Aug 19, 2019
Diary: John Moran, Reading Florida, Finding FlanneryFlorida is having a moment: the twenty-first century. Entering the last century as the least populated southern state, Florida’s debutante…Aug 5, 2019Aug 5, 2019