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Deconstructing the Genius: ‘Picasso: Masterpieces …’ at the de Young Museum
Pablo Picasso's "Massacre in Korea" (1951) The Picasso of the contemporary American imagination and the Picasso of flesh and blood deserve adequate distinction. Because of his universally accepted...
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Montaigne, the Double Man, and Shelled Beans: Q&A with Adam Gopnik
Adam Gopnik (photo by Brigitte Lacombe) Where the famously poised, self-effacing, witty New Yorker critic proves to also be an ebullient, passionate, fiery man who admits to being in rage as much as in...
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The Archaeology of Gossip: Edmund White’s ‘Inside A Pearl: My Years in Paris’
In 1983, with a Guggenheim fellowship and his acclaimed novel A Boy’s Own Story in tow, Edmund White left what he calls New York’s “gay ghetto” and moved to Paris. The site of what White thought would...
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A Layered Portrait of a Mind at War with Itself: ‘Viviane’ by Julia Deck
“The cry of the mind exhausted by its own rebellion”—Albert Camus The slim spine of Julia Deck’s first novel, Viviane (The New Press, 149 pages), expertly translated from the French by Linda Coverdale,...
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The Opportunity to Understand What’s Different: Q&A with Christine Sneed
Christine Sneed (photo by Adam Tinkham) Over the course of a relatively short but extremely productive literary career, Christine Sneed has already achieved a substantial, and enviable, body of work....
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A Culling of Foxes: ‘Happiness’ by Aminatta Forna
In Happiness (368 pages; Atlantic Monthly Press), novelist and memoirist Aminatta Forna takes the reader into a caravan of events that starts in contemporary London, where Attila, a Ghanian...
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Takeoffs and Landings: ‘Blue Self-Portrait’ by Noémi Lefebvre
Air travel has long been depicted in fiction as a venue for potential transition and transformation (even if only metaphorical); we take off from one place and land in another, and there is no...
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