by RACHEL GEVLIN     John Warner, Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities (Johns Hopkins University Press, November 2018), pp. 288 —, The Writer’s Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing (Penguin, February 2019), pp. … Read more

by TARAS V. MIKHAILIUK Anton Chekhov, Chekhov: Stories for Our Time. Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett, Ilan Stavans, and Alexander Gurvets (Restless Books, 2018), pp. 344. To review an edition of Anton Chekhov’s stories is an honor I … Read more

by AMY HENRY There isn’t much to say, I tell folks when they ask about the events of last June. How it was that Eva Lewis, my caretaker at the Sheridan House Adult Care Center, and Jordan Reed, her boyfriend … Read more