by Lisa Peet
“It was such a transformative thing for me, making the point that you get a different set of words and holy shit, your perceptions just turn inside out.” Continue reading
Tag Archives: Hilary Mantel
A God in Ruins: Kate Atkinson After Kate Atkinson
by Jill Kronstadt
In both Life After Life and her newest novel, A God in Ruins, the most gallingly needy of these female characters have late, lucrative careers as bestselling novelists—perhaps echoing Atkinson’s own? Continue reading
Features / Fiction / Interviews / Nonfiction
Q&A With NYRB Classics Editor Edwin Frank & Translator Stephen Twilley
Tomasi di Lampedusa’s language is relatively spare and direct but still formal and correct, and sprinkled with archaic terms. It is carnal and sophisticated, slyly humorous but still possessed of a kind of gravity and grace. Continue reading
