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Lydia Davis
October 24, 2023
Jasmine Liu
Lydia Davis’s Very Short Stories to Save the World
Climate change made Lydia Davis rethink our relationships to each other, close and distant.
November 12, 2019
Rumaan Alam
In Essays One, Lydia Davis Goes Big
The unclassifiable writer and translator's collected nonfiction shows us a brilliant mind at work.
July 10, 2017
Bradley Babendir
How a Syrian Writer Takes on War
Osama Alomar's story collection "The Teeth of the Comb" looks at cruelty, compassion, and hope in the face of catastrophe.
April 7, 2014
Chloe Schama
Lydia Davis Is the Perfect Writer for the Twitter Era
October 20, 2010
Ruth Franklin
The READ: Why Is Emma Bovary So Maligned and Misunderstood?

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