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The Story of the Lost Novel Reading the book Simone de Beauvoir decided not to publish Maddie Crum, The Baffler September, 2021 There’s a scene in Simone de Beauvoir’s 1967 novella, The Age of Discretion, in which the narrator, a scholar, despairs over her latest book’s lukewarm reviews. It’s stale; it’s repetitive; she has no new ideas, it seems. “Why didn’t you warn me that the book was worth ..

11 Translated Books by Asian Women Writers to Read This #WITMonth By Words Without Borders Words Without Borders Published Aug 5, 2021 Happy #WITMonth! To celebrate this special occasion, we've chosen eleven books you won't want to miss by some of our favorite Asian women writers in the WWB archives. From Indonesia, Macau, Vietnam, India, and more, these titles range across genres and themes, de..

The 50 bestselling books of all time, from 'To Kill a Mockingbird' to 'The Fellowship of the Ring' Katherine Fiorillo 2021-08-02T20:59:51Z The bestselling books of all time include "The Fellowship of the Ring," "The Little Prince," and every book in the "Harry Potter" series. Amazon; Rachel Mendelson/Insider With over 2 million books published every year, few titles become bestsellers. Here are ..

American Fables George Packer seeks refuge in political myth David Klion Baffler June 15 Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal by George Packer. Farrar, Straus and Giroux 240 pages. George Packer is the quintessential establishment liberal intellectual: a staff writer at The Atlantic, and before that The New Yorker; the author of a dozen books of both fiction and nonfiction; a National B..

Jeanette Winterson’s hatred of her jacket copy is nothing new—over the centuries blurbing has always been a grubby business By James Riding Prospect June 15, 2021 Is this a blurb that I see before me? Shakespeare praised in the First Folio. Credit: Alamy Jeanette Winterson committed a bizarre act of literary arson earlier this month, in protest against “the cosy little domestic blurbs” her publi..

Sonia Faleiro’s story of the deaths of Padma Shakya and Lalli Shakya sheds light on broader issues in contemporary India. Shattered: the mother of one of the victims at Katra Sadatganj, Badaun, 31 May 2014 By Emily Tamkin NewStatesman 2 June 2021 One evening in May 2014, two teenage girls – cousins Padma Shakya and Lalli Shakya – went missing in the village of Katra Sadatganj, in Uttar Pradesh, ..

By Michael Dirda Critic June 2, 2021 at 4:21 p.m. UTC There are many, many biographies of Edgar Allan Poe, the most exhaustive being Arthur Hobson Quinn’s, first published in 1941, the most concise Peter Ackroyd’s 2009 “Poe: A Life Cut Short.” Nearly all of them, however, are written by literary scholars, poets or novelists. By contrast, John Tresch’s “The Reason for the Darkness of the Night” s..

T.M. Murray Quillette May 30, 2021 A review of Modern Europe and the Enlightenment by Rumy Hasan. Sussex Academic Press, 240 pages (May 2021). In a June 2019 interview given to the Financial Times, Russian President Vladimir Putin brashly declared that the liberal idea had outlived its purpose. He supported this claim by noting that the public had rejected ostensibly “liberal” European policy st..

A still from the 1963 film of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Photograph: Ronald Grant When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently from William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman Rutger Bregman Guardian Sat 9 May 2020 09.00 BST For centuries western culture has been permeated by the idea that humans are selfish creatures. That cynic..

You Are Not Galileo Are Anthony Fauci and Plandemic cranks both like the persecuted astronomer? It’s time to retire this trope. Tess Doezema New Atkabtis Spring 2021 Truth is heresy to Donald Trump, which makes Dr. Anthony Fauci our Galileo,” reads the headline of a recent op-ed in the Arizona Republic. Mario Livio, an astrophysicist, agrees. In a Stat News piece last May, he wrote that Fauci “n..