The Hemingway Scene That Shows How Humanity Works


The novelist Téa Obreht describes how a single surprising image in The Old Man and the Sea sums up the main character's identity.


Friday, 30 August 2019

The Hidden Labor Behind Food: How to 'Read' a Tomato


The creator of a new documentary outlines how closely farmworkers’ lives are connected to what’s on grocery-store shelves.


Novel explosives of the Cold War


Orwell’s searing satires as well as samizdat works from Solzhenitsyn and Pasternak proved powerful weapons in the fight against communism.