Eighty Years Since Bread and Wine: Ignazio Silone’s Christian Socialism
Ignazio Silone’s 1936 classic served as a moral compass to a generation of U.S. leftists seeking alternatives both to capitalism and to Soviet-style communism.
Winter 2026
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Hate Expectations
Jonathan Franzen’s quixotic war against the internet
The Naxal Novel
A series of novels captures the moral and political ambiguities of India’s Maoist insurgency.
Florence Gordon Writes a Memoir
It’s astonishing how little people know each other, even old friends. . . .
Scenes from the novel Florence Gordon.
Odd Women
George Gissing’s novel captured our two-steps-forward, one-step-back journey to the “new” woman and man.
Candide’s Garden: A Parable
When changing the very mechanisms for change is off-limits . . .
Is Climate Change Big or Small?
Buzz by Benjamin Kunkel Directed by Lian Walden Gemini & Scorpio Loft, Brooklyn, NY Bodies in mock hazmat suits unpack a faux Gowanus loft apartment in which everything is white, while you sit on a brown couch chatting with a …
Theses on the Feminist Novel
Not every novel that concerns itself with the lives of women is a feminist novel.
For Pleasure: A Letter
Difficulty is not an inherent virtue. A book must on some level give pleasure.
Bartlebys All!
Few institutions have offered themselves as less promising for the novelist than the modern office. And yet…
Introduction: The Gunshot Concert
Introducing our special Fall edition on Politics and the Novel—with essays by Nikil Saval, Vivian Gornick, Benjamin Hale, Helen Dewitt, Nina Martyris, and Roxane Gay—David Marcus asks: what happened to the political novel?
Six Fables
Six fables by Syrian poet Osama Alomar.
Vanished Writer, Vanished Book
…I cannot write otherwise than I do write. I am unable to, and I will not, even though I should want to violate myself; there is a literary law which makes it impossible to violate a literary talent—even with your …
On Literary Criticism and Political Action
It was a pleasure to read Lawrence W. Hyman’s statement: “It is not a moral direction that we must look for in literature but a disturbance.” Hyman provides an exciting way for handling moralistic objections—from Left and Right—that art is …
A Critic of Literature and Politics
Writers and Politics by Conor Cruise O’Brien New York, Pantheon. 259 pp. $4.95. Conor Cruise O’Brien, at least on the international scene the radical-liberal intellectual par excellence, has recently published a new collection of articles and speeches, Writers and Politics. …
