Articles by Emily St. John Mandel
May 14, 2013
War is Just Business: John le Carré’s A Delicate Truth 4
There are moments when the machinery of plot grinds a little too obviously, but Le Carré remains formidable. Here, as elsewhere in his body of work, Le Carré proves himself a master of character development.
May 13, 2013
Just How Far Will She Go? Nicole Wolverton’s The Trajectory of Dreams 5
In The Trajectory of Dreams, Wolverton has created one of the most haunting unreliable narrators I’ve ever come across. She is both deeply sympathetic and extremely dangerous.
April 2, 2013
Staff Pick: Terese Svoboda’s Tin God 0
There’s a feeling, reading this book, of encountering something that hasn’t been done before. It seems to me that Terese Svoboda is a true original.
March 29, 2013
I Await The Devil’s Friend Request: On Social Media and Mary MacLane 15
What participation in social media comes down to, I think, is that either you have an instinct for broadcasting your life, or you don’t. Mary MacLane would have been a natural.
March 19, 2013
Lost in the Land of Self-Help: Mohsin Hamid’s How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia 0
Hamid’s flawed but beautifully written new novel follows the trajectory of a self-made man in an unnamed country.
February 22, 2013
Drinking at the End of the World: Lars Iyer’s Exodus 5
Enduring the everyday is relatively straightforward — just keep breathing and putting one foot in front of the other — but how to transcend the everyday, in this world neither you nor I have made?