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May 4, 2026
Dwight Garner is the most prominent book critic at the New York Times which makes him, arguably, the most influential book critic in America. Book coverage has declined...
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Apr 28, 2026
Not long ago, I shared stories from my background in publishing—my battles to get books into print, my occasional successes and many failures—and I thought I’d...
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Apr 20, 2026
Recently, it occurred to me that, by the close of this year, I will have published a book with almost every single kind of publisher. This is either a reflection of the modern...
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Apr 13, 2026
Last week, the books and culture magazine I run, The Metropolitan Review, held the launch party for its first print issue. It was a raucous time, with plenty of drinking and,...
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Mar 16, 2026
A writer is forever at risk of hubris. A writer plays god, after all; he or she is a shaper of reality, a giddy or miserable tyrant, the sole purveyor of whatever currents pass...
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Mar 2, 2026
When did reality start to outstrip fiction for good? Philip Roth believed it was all happening around 1961. “The American writer in the middle of the 20th century has his hands...
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Feb 17, 2026
I confess, at the outset, I won’t spend as much time on this essay as I’d like. I am under pressure to finish a nonfiction book by the spring, and that eats up a lot of...
May 4, 2026Dwight Garner is the most prominent book critic at the New York Times which makes him, arguably, the most influential book critic in America. Book coverage has declined...
Apr 28, 2026Not long ago, I shared stories from my background in publishing—my battles to get books into print, my occasional successes and many failures—and I thought I’d...
Apr 20, 2026Recently, it occurred to me that, by the close of this year, I will have published a book with almost every single kind of publisher. This is either a reflection of the modern...
Mar 16, 2026A writer is forever at risk of hubris. A writer plays god, after all; he or she is a shaper of reality, a giddy or miserable tyrant, the sole purveyor of whatever currents pass...
Mar 2, 2026When did reality start to outstrip fiction for good? Philip Roth believed it was all happening around 1961. “The American writer in the middle of the 20th century has his hands...
Feb 17, 2026I confess, at the outset, I won’t spend as much time on this essay as I’d like. I am under pressure to finish a nonfiction book by the spring, and that eats up a lot of...