A Discovery of Lost Pages Brings to Light a ‘Last Great Yiddish Novel’
Altie Karper had been waiting for the call for years. An editor at a Knopf imprint, she had long wanted to publish an English translation of the last novel by…
At 83, Anne Tyler Has a New Novel. She’d Rather Talk About Anything Else.
Anne Tyler and I sat facing one another on a couch overlooking a man-made pond at her retirement community outside of Baltimore. She moved there in 2022 and likes the…
25 Years Ago, Joan Didion Kept a Diary. It’s About to Become Public.
In December 1999, around her 65th birthday, Joan Didion started writing a journal after sessions with her psychiatrist. Over the next year or so, she kept notes about their conversations,…