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The High-Born Rebel Who Took Up the Cause of the Commoner
Like her childhood identification with communism, her writing began as something of a joke. She was completely devoted to the ...
What Makes Goethe So Special?
On his return to Frankfurt, he found it: the life of Götz von Berlichingen, an early 16th-century knight with an ...
What Does “Capitalism” Really Mean, Anyway?
The endgame of capitalism, in his opinion, is a world in which “almost nothing has escaped commodification.” Here Beckert refers ...
Where Dante’s Divine Comedy Guides Us
Nevertheless, hell is filled with bloody and horrific torment. According to Dante, some sinners fully deserve what they get: for ...
“This World of Tomorrow” and “Oedipus” Dramatize the Power of the Past
To write Tomorrow, Hanks and Glossman adapted several of Hanks's own short stories, most notably “The Past Matters to Us,” ...
Ruth Asawa’s Art of Defiant Hospitality
“It was the first time in my life that I didn’t have to do anything,” Asawa said later. She took ...
If the Legal Campaigns Against Donald Trump Had Ended Differently
“Injustice” largely ignores these cases. His drama is tightly confined to the Justice Department—which is instructive but sometimes suffocating. Bragg's ...
Yasmina Reza’s “Art” Feeds Our Appetite for Argument as Entertainment
According to Judith Thurman's profile in this magazine, Reza completed “Art” in six weeks because she writes “improvising as she ...
Solvej Balle’s Novels Rewire the Time Loop
Before Tara Selter, the protagonist of Danish writer Solvay Balle's Volume Calculation series, is trapped in a time loop, she ...
The Surprising Endurance of Martha Stewart’s “Entertaining”
Most readers will find this fantastic. For Stewart, it was a snapshot of real life. She grew up in a ...
