Norman Rush News Today

Despite occasional displays of wit and insight, the buzzy US critic’s ironic essays can feel airless and small

Becca Rothfeld on the works of the director David Cronenberg and how his films, including “Shivers” and “The Fly,” complicate our traditional notions of consent.

As adaptations of novels go, it’s hard to think of a more paint-by-numbers production than Sabbath’s Theater, a new play based on Philip Roth’s novel of the same name.

Inside the buyout at Penguin Random House and changes at Knopf. Major book editors including Shelley Wanger, Jonathan Segal and Victoria Wilson will depart.

New York Times: Novel a hit among younger readers thinking about romantic relationships.

Norman Rush’s “Mating” has achieved handshake status among younger readers thinking seriously about romantic relationships.

“Mating,” published in 1991, usually finds its evangelists by word-of-mouth. For some, its plot points can be a tough sell: An unnamed graduate student in Botswana pursues an American anthropologist, Nelson Denoon, who is trying to form a matriarchal society in a desert village.

Katherine Champagne had never heard of “Mating,” the award-winning novel by Norman Rush, until one afternoon in 2020, when she popped into a

Including: Jean-Patrick Manchette, Nancy Mitford, Svetlana Alexievich, Tayeb Salih, and Seth Price.

“A Private Spy,” a collection of the British writer’s letters, offers glimpses of unguarded moments and ruffled feathers.