31-08-2026 07:00 via nytimes.com

Putin Is Coming for Russian Literature

The Kremlin is redefining what it means to be a writer in Russia.
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Completing Our Summer Reading Bucket List
Book Review: ‘The Castle,’ by Jon Ronson
He Warned That the End of History Could Be Rough. Maybe Now People Will Listen.
Book Review: ‘The Disappearers,’ by Marlon James
Barbie for Grown-Ups
How Marlon James Confronted ‘the Story I Was Not Allowed to Live’
“The Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth”: An Economist, Erased
Book Review: ‘Under Story,’ by Chloe Benjamin
Book Review: ‘Defending the Music,’ by Michael Steinberg
Book Review: ‘Agrippa,’ by Robert Harris
The ‘Odyssey’ Scholar Emily Wilson, a Critic of the Movie, Is Redoing Her Translation
Soviet censors mangled Vasily Grossman's wartime journalism. The original copy reveals a palimpsest of what propaganda demanded
Siegfried Kracauer believed films could foretell political disaster. What does his approach make of today’s cinema?
Siegfried Kracauer believed films could foretell political disaster. What does his approach make of today’s cinema?
“As intellectually undistinguished as it is possible to be”: F.R. Leavis’s torching of C.P. Snow brought passion back into cultural life
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