Making America Red-Scared Again
In “Red Scare,” Clay Risen shows how culture in the United States is still driven by the political paranoia of the 1950s.
A famous chef’s autopsy tells the story of his career
Samuel Ashworth’s novel “The Death and Life of August Sweeney” dissects the appetites and errors of a master of the food ...
The Literature of the Pandemic
Not long after COVID lockdowns began in the U.S. five years ago this week, many readers and writers started to wonder, with a ...