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Alma Guillermoprieto
A Telenovela Macondo

Netflix’s adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude has skimmed off only the melodramatic and the anecdotal parts of Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece.

David Cole
The Unhinged Presidency

Many of the legal challenges to Donald Trump’s executive overreach will come down to the Supreme Court. Will it rein him in?

Perry Link
China’s Counter-Histories

In Sparks, Ian Johnson writes of Chinese people who risk their careers and even their lives to uncover suppressed truths about their country’s modern history.

Sigrid Nunez
A Hero for Cro-MAGA Times

Charles Baxter’s new novel follows the moral travails of a rock-steady insurance salesman in a dystopian Ohio backwater.

Muhammad al-Zaqzouq, translated and with an introduction by Katharine Halls
Days and Nights in Gaza

Watching TV that first day, we awaited the roar of planes and the rumble of explosions. We didn’t have to wait long.

Gabriel Winslow-Yost
A Country for Old Monsters

In Nosferatu and Wolf Man, the forces of evil are not so much confronted as fatalistically, inevitably succumbed to.

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 Kaitlyn Greenidge, who is the features director at Harper’s Bazaar and the author of two novels. In a wide-ranging conversation, the two talk about working at Weeksville, the fun of oral histories, how to respond to a pitch, and the importance of writing and editing in good faith.

Kaitlyn Greenidge, interviewed by Merve Emre
Making Artifacts

“The purpose of writing is not to make your ego feel good. The purpose is ultimately the piece. The reader is never going to be in your house, sitting right beside you, seeing how wonderful and interesting and oh-so-smart you are. They have only the words on the page.”

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