Yiyun Li

A Talent for Living

In Beryl Bainbridge’s novels, to die is an awfully big adventure—and so is to live.

Melville Before Coffee

“Every word I use when I write—noun, verb, adjective, adverb—has to be studied and secured before it becomes my word.”

In the Beforemath

In his novels Jon McGregor explores the time before and after tragic events, resisting predictable narrative formulas and rescuing moments outside the chain of cause and effect from oblivion.

Anna Karenina’s Children

Carmen Boullosa’s ‘Book of Anna’ gives life to the next generation of Tolstoy’s characters.

Pandemic Journal, March 23–29

Brief dispatches by New York Review writers documenting the coronavirus outbreak around the world, including Michael Greenberg in Brooklyn, Raquel Salas Rivera in San Juan, Aida Alami in Paris, Rahmane Idrissa in Niamey, and more.