V.S. Naipaul and the Impossibility of Going Home
A brilliant writer, a misogynist, a small-town boy with a haughty, big-city gaze: Naipaul’s life was marked by a sense of doubleness.
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France’s Unlikely Literary Rebel
Maylis de Kerangal’s “The Heart” combines the language of science, philosophy, and pop culture to create a novel that defies categorization—and frustrates certain literary élites.
You Can Do Anything if You Just Do it Slowly
The best-selling author Lauren Groff on artistic narcissism, Véra Nabokov, and her winding road to success.
John Banville on the Utter Mystery of Writing
Five decades after trading paintbrushes for pens, the Irish novelist says writing fiction remains an enigma.
Distinctly Emasculated
On Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and the sexual anxiety of the Lost Generation for The Paris Review
Cody Delistraty 