Crypto shenanigans, Special Forces drug-running, Paddington the Bear and the unlikely revival of the bald ibis in this week’s reading recommendations.
Category Archive: literature
The sensibility of Gen Z is uncritical and anti-intellectual, assuming that everyone suffers from crippling anxiety and trauma, a sensitivity which any criticism might imperil.
Dos Passos’s epic trilogy still indelibly captures the United States in a moment of centrifugal chaos
Adrián Félix recounts the faces and voices of a journey back home to Zacatecas, via the world’s worst airport.
Marcos Gonsalez’s debut novel provides an occasion for reflection and healing in traumatic times, now and past.
Le Carré elevated quit lit into something sublime and deserving of literary awards, unlike my overwrought internet Weltschmertz.
When does the act of acknowledging your own complicity in an unjust system start to look like an empty gesture? Aaron Colton considers the work of Jia Tolentino.
Why are certain stories and storytellers amplified while others are ignored or silenced?