A look at John Freeman’s new book; Jonathan Lethem on artist Julian Hoeber; Laura Miller looks at how book review language is expanding; and more.
Karen Russell on her MacArthur fellowship, celebrating the 90th birthday of Wallace Stevens’s Harmonium, catching up with John Freeman, and more.
From its opening minutes, the imagery invoked at Symphony Space on Wednesday night was memorably scenic. Billed as “An Evening With David Mitchell,” this event — opening the latest season of the Selected Shorts series — found the author at the end of a brief stint in the Northeastern United States, timed to the release of the cinematic adaptation of Cloud Atlas, his third novel. Granta editor John Freeman evoked the “ozone scorch of new images being born” in Mitchell’s […]