Thomas Mallon on the Career of Jonathan Franz...

In April 1989, a newspaper clipping about an art exhibit landed in the mailbox of the Rev. Donald Wildmon, the founder of a conservative evangelical group, the American Family Association. Partly funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the exhibit included a now-infamous p ...  Show more

In 2024, The New York Times Book Review gathered more than 500 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets and literary enthusiasts to help pick the best books of the 21st century so far. One of those books was Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “The Road,” which came in at ...  Show more

Le romancier, âgé de 45 ans, qui vient de sortir « Le Ciel Ouvert », une collection de textes initialement postés sur son compte Instagram, nous reçoit chez lui à Nancy.

Nicolas Mathieu évoque son enfance à Golbey dans les Vosges auprès d'un père électromécanicien p ...  Show more

Fearless and fiercely intelligent, the nineteenth-century American feminist Margaret Fuller was "the radiant genius and fiery heart" of the Transcendentalists, the group of New Englanders who helped launch a fledgling nation onto the world's cultural and literary stage. In this e ...  Show more

Jacke and Mike discuss the life and works of novelist Martin Amis (1949-2023), who recently died of esophageal cancer. The son of writer Kingsley Amis, Martin forged his own path, writing fifteen novels and several other works of essays and memoirs, with a devotion to style that ...  Show more

<span>“I wanted to do a French movie, and I had this idea of wanting to do a </span><span>New Yorker</span><span> movie,” Wes Anderson explains. “Somehow, I also wanted to do one of those omnibus-type things where it was a collection of short stories.” The result is the ...