Vasily Grossman's Everything Flows is a searching and humane investigation of the totalitarian condition.
Jochen Hellbeck
For William James, all our certitudes depend on the pretense that there are no radical mysteries underlying them.
Drollery, mordancy, tenderness and soul talk: Saul Bellow's letters are a Saul Bellow novel!
Susie Linfield's The Cruel Radiance is a demanding and flawed attempt to regard the pain of others through photographs.
Julia Holmes's Meeks is a novel full of a jittery sadness and an uncontrollable kind of joy.
Robert Gottlieb's vigorous biography of Sarah Bernhardt shows the actress in all her workaholic, passionate and unsentimental force.
Has any book had a greater influence on the English language than the Bible?
How much does language tell us what to see, and hence what to think?
How and why do we use things like codes, jokes and slang to mask our meanings?
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