Heidi Julavits
Our man from the north country toasts the new year by conversing with the novelist and editor about her thoughts on the state of therapy, storytelling, and the novel.
Robert Birnbaum
Book Digest: January 8, 2007
Prime Green; Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name; Returning to Earth; The Oldways Table; Tales of the Out & the Gone; Francesca Woodman; Twelve Days; A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
Book Digest: December 18, 2006
Year-end lists may be meaningless—but they’re also irresistible. Robert Birnbaum gives into temptation with his favorite books from 2006.
Book Digest: December 11, 2006
William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism; New Glass Architecture; Fashion Show: Paris Style; Original Zinn; Bookworm; The Crimson Portrait; In Katrina’s Wake; Ginsberg’s Collected Poems; Travel and Photography: Off the Charts; Spy: The Funny Years; Not Enough Indians; Steel Drivin’ Man
Book Digest: November 20, 2006
I Was Vermeer; Natural Selection; The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved; Skin; Abandon the Old in Tokyo; The Yellow House; The Book of Dave; Truck
Book Digest: November 13, 2006
A Year in Sports; Alexis de Tocqueville; The Children’s Hospital; Big-Box Swindle; Exile on Main St.; The Lay of the Land; The Photobook
Book Digest: November 6, 2006
The Paris Review Interviews; Dreams of Peace and Freedom; So What; Moving the Chains; The Uses of Enchantment; Theories of Everything; The Blue Taxi; Hubris
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about her new book and the Biafran War, being African in America, and the distorted picture of Africa created by the media.
Book Digest: October 23, 2006
Home Ground; The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes; The Best American Poetry 2006; The Best American Comics 2006; The Sun Also Rises; Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip; Echo Park; Point to Point Navigation
Book Digest: October 16, 2006
The Trouble With Physics; Approaching Nowhere; Yale Book of Quotations; Ancestor Stones; Granta #95; Winter’s Bone; The Beautiful Fall