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Fintan O’Toole
The big thing that happens to Beckett’s work in the years covered by the new volume of his letters is the arrival of female voices.
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Ligaya Mishan
William Gibson’s new novel, The Peripheral, takes the form of one of the most traditional of science-fiction narratives, an anthropological account of first contact between cultures. In this case, the encounter is not interplanetary but between two different periods of time.
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Mark Lilla
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ALSO IN THE APRIL 2 ISSUE
Joyce Carol Oates on Kazuo Ishiguro, Ahmed Rashid on Pakistan, Deborah Eisenberg on Jenny Erpenbeck, Enrique Krauze on Cuba, Sue Halpern on automation, Steve Coll on Hitler and the Muslims, Paul Wilson on Adam Michnik, Edward Mendelson on Bernard Malamud, and more.
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Elise Partridge
I stand, legs astride, a colossus—
or dancer in fifth position, wide port de bras.
Polymorph strayed into English,
sometimes pronounced like Americans’ z,
in French I’m often silent; in Pirahã the glottal
stop;
a fricative in Somali.
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David Shulman
The Israeli electorate has given a clear mandate. There will be more antidemocratic legislation, more attempts to undermine the courts, more rampant racism, more thugs in high office, more acts of cruelty inflicted on innocents.
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