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Working Joes
Shaun Richman
Misjudging Labor
The Supreme Court’s recent Starbucks decision is the latest episode in a long history of judicial hostility toward labor.
Lucy Jakub
Be Yourself
In her debut film, Janet Planet, the playwright Annie Baker tells a story about how to live when you don’t know why living is so hard.
Joseph O’Neill
Kamalapalooza
In ruling in favor of Donald Trump’s claims of immunity from prosecution for his official acts, the Supreme Court has invested the presidency with quasi-monarchial powers, paving the way for MAGA authoritarianism.
Christopher Benfey
Siding with Ahab
“Works inspired by Melville appear in every season, but our own fraught interlude has proved fertile not only for book clubs but for novelists and scholars as well.”
Free from the Archives
“What is a historical novel?” asked Stephen Greenblatt in his review of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall from our November 5, 2009, issue. Tracing the genre’s genealogy from Shakespeare’s day to the present, Greenblatt found that Mantel’s book, through her “skills as a narrator”—“this is a novel…in which nothing is wasted, and nothing completely disappears”—was a triumph of the form.
In the spring of 2015—shortly after the sold-out run in London of a stage adaptation of Wolf Hall: Parts One and Two—Mona Simpson spent three days with Mantel to interview her for The Paris Review. They discussed the flexibility of fiction, teaching Shakespeare in Botswana, the trick to juggling dozens of writing projects, and much else besides.
Both the interview and Greenblatt’s review of Wolf Hall are available to read for free as part of a special offer with our friends at The Paris Review. If you enjoy the pairing, consider subscribing to both publications for only $119—37 percent off the regular price!
Stephen Greenblatt
How It Must Have Been
“Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall is a startling achievement, a brilliant historical novel focused on the rise to power of a figure exceedingly unlikely, on the face of things, to arouse any sympathy at all.”
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