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Gary Saul Morson
With Liberals Like These

Twice in modern Russian history—in 1905 and in 1985—liberal reformers have gained influence only to be succeeded by autocratic regimes.

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Nicole Flattery
The House of Self-Worth

In Halle Butler’s third novel, Banal Nightmare, the real enemy is the careerism of the millennial.

Anna Shechtman
Sympathy for the Troll

Leos Carax’s ostentatiously intelligent films, full of references to cinematic history, are all in frantic search of a worldview.

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Catherine Coleman Flowers
Justice for the Rural Poor

When I started fighting for sanitation rights in Alabama, I felt some nostalgia for a time when our government committed to lifting up people who had been beaten down.

Stefanos Geroulanos
A Radioactive Sublime?

An exhibition in Paris suggests that our contemporary sensibility—which combines an awareness of overwhelming manmade power and civilizational fragility—has its origins in the Atomic Age.

The Art of Editing

In “The Art of Editing,” season two of Merve Emre’s podcast, The Critic and Her Publics, Emre speaks with top magazine, newspaper, and book editors to discuss their careers and the work of editing. The Review is collaborating with Lit Hub to publish transcripts and recordings of each episode every other Tuesday this spring.

In the first episode, Emre’s guest is our editor, Emily Greenhouse. In a wide-ranging conversation, the two discuss the pleasures of a liberal arts education, being a “magazine person,” and how to balance the contents of an issue.

Emily Greenhouse, interviewed by Merve Emre
Your Whole Self

“I still struggle to think of it as my magazine, because I think of it so much as our magazine, yours included. It was very clear to me, again, as the kind of little guy that I am, that what was needed was for the magazine to be cracked open. It was a process of glasnost and perestroika, I always say.”

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