Tag: New Yorker

Jillian Steinhauer: Hannah Arendt’s Passionate Thinking

June 2013

Margarethe von Trotta’s biopic yields an insight that’s fresher than “the banality of evil,” and just as true.

Updike Redux

November 2010

In a previously unpublished interview, John Updike talks about Nabokov and his other literary heroes, why he wrote a book about a terrorist, and why he never expected to be a novelist.