| |  Fiction “Alvin” “ ‘Derivatives,’ Alvin said. ‘I don’t speculate about the future, I trade it.’ ” By Jonas Eika | | | This Week in Fiction Jonas Eika on Hope and Defiance The author discusses “Alvin,” his story from the latest issue of the magazine. By Cressida Leyshon | | | Fiction “As You Would Have Told It to Me (Sort of) if We Had Known Each Other Before You Died” If you liked “Alvin,” we think you will enjoy this story, from 2017. By Jonas Hassen Khemiri | | | | | | | | Books Historical Fiction Gets Personal Set in the wake of Germany’s reunification, Thomas Grattan’s début novel follows a country coming together and a teen-ager coming out. By Thomas Mallon | | | Under Review Why We Mourn Girlhood For many women, growing up involves a transformation from subject to object. In “Girlhood,” Melissa Febos asks whether we can reverse the process. By Katy Waldman | | | Books The Repressive Politics of Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman’s pop-psychology blockbuster, now twenty-five years old, turned self-control into a corporate management tool. By Merve Emre | | | | | |  U.S. Journal The Long Trip Home After a young athlete died, there was no question that he would be buried in his home town. How his parents would transport the casket nearly nine thousand miles during a pandemic was less clear. By Meg Bernhard |  The Theatre Off Broadway Returns, with “Blindness” Simon Stephens’s adaptation of José Saramago’s dystopian novel, about a sudden epidemic of blindness, is up—in person—at the Daryl Roth Theatre. By Vinson Cunningham | | | | | | |
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