Books & Literary Life
Faith through Film
The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies
by Max J. Krupnick
A Fictional Century
A book about books—and the protagonist is the twentieth-century novel itself.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Beyond the SAT
Nicholas Lemann on revising standardized testing to address real educational needs
History in Progress
How the War on Terror reshaped American life
by Nina Pasquini
Off the Shelf
Democratic organizing, “architectural grafting,” the Constitution, offshore wealth, and other new books
“Volts of Your Own Spirit”
Seamus Heaney writes to Helen Vendler.
Bringing the Magic
The reality-based fantasies of novelist Tomi Adeyemi
by Lydialyle Gibson
A Democratic Landscape
Michael Van Valkenburgh and the making of Brooklyn Bridge Park
Off the Shelf
Painting with Monet, birding with Thoreau, and other recent books
On Being “Printerly”
An art historian analyzes an overlooked medium.
by Murray Whyte
Vision and Justice
How photographs promote social justice
by Nina Pasquini