A More Perfect Union
“The Engagement,” by Sasha Issenberg, recounts the complex and chaotic chain reaction that thrust same-sex marriage from the realm of conservative conjecture to the top of the gay political agenda and...
11 Jun 20211h 2min
Reimagining the Aftermath of a Wartime Attack
Francis Spufford’s new novel, “Light Perpetual,” is rooted in a real event: the rocket attack on a Woolworth’s in London, killing 168 people, toward the end of World War II. Spufford fictionalizes the...
4 Jun 202149min
A Desperate Writer Steals 'The Plot'
Jake Bonner, the protagonist of Jean Hanff Korelitz’s “The Plot,” writes a novel based on someone else’s idea. The book becomes a big hit, but Jake has a hard time enjoying it because he’s worried abo...
28 Mai 20211h 4min
Maggie O’Farrell on ‘Hamnet’
Maggie O’Farrell’s “Hamnet,” one of last year’s most widely acclaimed novels, imagines the life of William Shakespeare, his wife, Anne (or Agnes) Hathaway, and the couple’s son Hamnet, who died at 11 ...
21 Mai 202156min
Louis Menand on 'The Free World'
Louis Menand’s new book, “The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War,” covers the interchange of arts and ideas between the United States and Europe in the decades following World War II. On this...
14 Mai 20211h 9min
Michael Lewis on 'The Premonition'
In 2018, Michael Lewis published “The Fifth Risk,” which argued, in short, that the federal government was underprepared for a variety of disaster scenarios. Guess what his new book is about? Lewis vi...
7 Mai 20211h 5min
Amy Klobuchar on 'Antitrust'
In her new book, “Antitrust,” Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota explores the history of fighting monopoly power in this country, and argues that the digital age calls for a renewed effort.“I think th...
30 Apr 20211h 6min
Patrick Radden Keefe on ‘Empire of Pain’
Patrick Radden Keefe’s new book, “Empire of Pain,” is a history of the Sacklers, the family behind Purdue Pharma, the creator of the powerful painkiller OxyContin, which became the root of the opioid ...
23 Apr 20211h 2min
