The Cold and Forbidding Worlds of Cynthia Ozick The Cold and Forbidding Worlds of Cynthia Ozick
In a new career-spanning collection of shorter fiction and nonfiction, the past often looms larger for Ozick than the present.
Aug 6, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold
The Genius of Garth Greenwell The Genius of Garth Greenwell
Set abroad or at home, in unfamiliar worlds an ocean away or in an intensive care unit in Iowa, Greenwell's novels are songs of the self and of the United States as a whole.
Aug 28, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold
The Sea According to Rachel Carson The Sea According to Rachel Carson
Her first three books were odes to the world’s bodies of water and their creative power over all life forms.
May 17, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold
The Making of Tom Stoppard The Making of Tom Stoppard
How mistaken identity and acts of reinvention define the life and work of the British playwright.
Dec 13, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold
The Strange State of the Novel in the “Age of Amazon” The Strange State of the Novel in the “Age of Amazon”
A conversation with Mark McGurl about how the company changed the way books are written and the consequences of a service oriented reading culture.
Oct 28, 2021 / Q&A / Hannah Gold
Analysis Interminable: On Janet Malcolm Analysis Interminable: On Janet Malcolm
The insight and rigor of her writing changed the way we understood the work of psychoanalysis.
Jun 25, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold
Vivian Gornick in Reverse Vivian Gornick in Reverse
A conversation with the writer about her life and work.
Mar 11, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold
Sally Rooney and the Millennial Novel of Manners Sally Rooney and the Millennial Novel of Manners
Her second book, "Normal People", mines the travails of Irish youth to tell a decidedly contemporary love story.
Sep 17, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold
Sick for Home, Nauseated by Home Sick for Home, Nauseated by Home
The lens of Ottessa Moshfegh’s "Homesick for Another World" is, almost without exception, fitted close-up on conversations, petty rumination, and squalid interiors.
Feb 14, 2017 / Hannah Gold
How (Not) to Fake Your Own Death How (Not) to Fake Your Own Death
Elizabeth Greenwood’s "Playing Dead" is a brilliant series of entertaining character reports, but her telling of what all the deceit and deletions add up to is unconvincing.
Oct 20, 2016 / Hannah Gold