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In light of the recent N.S.A. scandal, are we now living in Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four”? http://nyr.kr/19nzfvM
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Born Again
Nicole Krauss remembers Yoram Kaniuk (1930-2013), one of the greatest Israeli writers: http://nyr.kr/10bIwUy
(Source: newyorker.com)
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Would You Want to Be Friends With Humbert Humbert?: A Forum on “Likeability”
Our Page-Turner blog asked a group of novelists how often the question of likeability has been posed about their characters: http://nyr.kr/16CpZCS
Illustration by Roman Muradov
(Source: newyorker.com)
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“Room” and Cleveland
Jon Michaud writes about the similarities between Emma Donoghue’s novel “Room” and the news from Cleveland: http://nyr.kr/15vSy5f
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Alexander Nazaryan on Henry Miller, a Brooklyn writer who hated Brooklyn: http://t.co/xD6j2Bqyoh
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In today’s Daily Comment, Evan Osnos writes about how “The Great Gatsby” resonates in China: http://nyr.kr/105aVVK
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“Reach For The Book—It Is A Weapon”
Claire Barliant on how books have figured in recent protest movements: http://nyr.kr/Zn94fL
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The Birthday Party
An excerpt from Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “My Struggle, Book Two,” introduced by James Wood: http://nyr.kr/10RUX8P
(Source: newyorker.com)
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Reading Amanda Knox
Rebecca Mead on the “dispiriting account” of prevailing sexual mores in Amanda Knox’s memoir: “…if empowerment, that much abused and much diminished term, means anything it means being able to say no as well as yes, without censure or shame.” http://nyr.kr/11qLIY3
Illustration by Tom Bachtell
(Source: newyorker.com)
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Emily Greenhouse remembers E.L. Konigsburg, author of “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler” http://nyr.kr/ZmeuMD
