Laila Lalami on 'The Other Americans'

<p>Literature isn’t a horse race. Taste is subjective, and artistic value can’t be measured in terms of “winners" and “losers.”</p><p>That doesn’t mean it’s not fun to try.</p><p>The book world’s awards season officially kicked off on Oct. 9, when the Hungarian novelist Laszlo Kr ... Show More

<p>Nicholas Boggs’s “Baldwin: A Love Story,” is many things at once. It’s a comprehensive biography of James Baldwin. It’s a nimble excavation of Baldwin’s work, filled with astute literary analysis of his books and prose. And, most pressingly, it’s an argument for a new critical ... Show More

<p>On Nov. 10, 1975, during a calamitous storm, the Edmund Fitzgerald sunk below the waves of Lake Superior. All 29 men aboard went down with the vessel. With no survivors and no eyewitnesses, there’s always been a sense of mystery to what is arguably the most famous shipwreck in ... Show More

<p><span>Ling Ma joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “</span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/05/seeing-ershadi">Seeing Ershadi</a><span>,” by Nicole Krauss, which was published in<span> </span></span><em>The New Yorker</em><span><span> </span>in 2018. M ... Show More

Idiosyncratic short story writer Diane Williams discusses her new book, “How High? – That High.”