Anna Heyward’s Personal Essay “Bad Dog”

Plus: Hilton Als on Tove Ditlevsen; reckoning with a Nazi father; and Anakana Schofield’s new novel. View in browser | Update your preferences Personal History Bad Dog To love another animal so different and useless is to remind ourselves of how strange, complex, and irresponsible our behavior as humans can be. By Anna Heyward Essays & Criticism Books Tove Ditlevsen’s Art of Estrangement The Danish memoirist built a literature of disaster, brick by brick. By Hilton Als Page-Turner Reckoning with a Nazi Father I wrote a book about a leading Nazi who tried to flee after the war. His son is still sorting through the damage. By Philippe Sands Page-Turner In “Bina,” an Old Woman Dares You to Ignore Her The narrator’s story may be taken as a pointed challenge to the feminist marketplace: Do you actually care about this lady? By Katy Waldman PAID POST Mark Bittman’s “Animal, Vegetable, Junk” is a “must-read” (Al Gore) Bittman’s latest “is the authoritative text on the 1.8-million-year history of the food system…. Everyone who eats needs to read this book. The future of our species and our planet depends on it.”—Leah Penniman, Author of “Farming While Black” On This Day Fiction “Bull” From 2012: An excerpt from the novel “POW!,” by the Nobel Prize-winning Chinese author Mo Yan, who was born sixty-six years ago today. By Mo Yan More from The New Yorker Photo Booth A Photographer, Through the Eyes of His Late Wife For decades, Christine Gössler has been Seiichi Furuya’s greatest subject. By Rumaan Alam The New Yorker Documentary An Aging Burlesque Dancer’s Unlikely Romance “Coby and Stephen Are in Love” traces a partnership forged late in life and steeped in art. By Naomi Fry You're receiving this e-mail because you signed up for Books & Fiction from The New Yorker. Was this e-mail forwarded to you? Sign up. Unsubscribe | Manage your e-mail preferences | Send newsletter feedback | View our Privacy Policy Copyright © Condé Nast 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.