Editor’s Picks This week, don’t miss a biography of the literary critic who championed Faulkner and Kerouac; a study of “vampire panics”; and a fresh translation of Thucydides’s history of the Peloponnesian War
Annus Horribilis In The Flower Bearers, Rachel Eliza Griffiths reflects on the near-fatal stabbing of her husband, Salman Rushdie
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Annus Horribilis In the span of one year, Rachel Elizabeth Griffith’s husband, Salman Rushdie, was attacked, and her best friend died suddenly. Her new memoir reckons with these dual traumas
Pretty Privilege for Sale GLP-1s are making it possible to rig the genetic lottery. What happens to the people who can’t afford them?
Postmortem of a Marriage In Strangers, Belle Burden excavates the strange and sudden collapse of her marriage on a night in 2020
100 Years of Martha Graham Amidst its centennial tour, the Martha Graham Dance Company channels its legacy of resistance and protest with a new piece from the choreographer Hope Boykin, set to a reimagined Leonard Bernstein score
