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Katherine Lam Imperfect Union
A brilliant new book probes the intimate, unequal relationship between Virginia Woolf and the woman who cared for her.
Brett Ryder If This Is a Man
Primo Levi’s Holocaust memoirs stand among the best literature of the 20th century, but his greatest creation was himself.
True North
A career-spanning anthology reveals again why Alice Munro is the living writer most likely to be read in a hundred years
New York State of Mind
In praise of Deborah Eisenberg’s nonchalant sophistication
Found in Translation?
A new version of War and Peace seeks naturalism through slang— a questionable tack with a book whose originality is not its language
Serf Advisory
A practical guide for hired help, from the eighteenth century to ours
The Minister's Tale
Marilynne Robinson's long-awaited second novel is an almost otherworldly book—and reveals Robinson as a somewhat otherworldly figure herself
Dependents
Making beds for my employers, I know too much of them. Their bed here, it is like the bed of a seven-year-old: dry, neat, white, what Bing calls pretty princess perfect perfect
