| |  Books The Miracle of Stephen Crane Born after the Civil War, he turned himself into its most powerful witness—and modernized the American novel. By Adam Gopnik | | | Under Review Searching for Coherence in Asian America In “The Loneliest Americans,” Jay Caspian Kang asks whether Asian American identity can be rescued from people like him. By Marella Gayla | | | Poetry Podcast Forrest Gander Reads Ada Limón Forrest Gander joins Kevin Young to discuss “Privacy,” by Ada Limón, and his own poem “Post-Fire Forest.” | | | Books Briefly Noted “I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness,” “Happy Hour,” “Walk with Me,” and “Man Ray.” | | | | | | | |  Poems “Spring Recalled in Spring” “Open the book, but the page cracks. / Take your arm, but it’s gone.” By Sandy Solomon |  Poems “Continuity” “Before getting into the cab, she hands him a cup. / Then, after they kiss, she hands him the cup again.” By Terrance Hayes | | | | | Books Doris Lessing’s Sixties In her novel “The Sweetest Dream,” Doris Lessing—who was born a hundred and two years ago this week—renders the political hypocrisies and timeless wisdoms of the sixties. By Louis Menand | | | | | |  The Current Cinema The Elegant Containment of “The French Dispatch” Wes Anderson’s portmanteau of four stories confirms him as a director who trusts the expressive powers of the sketch more than the heft of a finished portrait. By Anthony Lane |  The Front Row “A Love Supreme Live in Seattle,” Reviewed The recording, from 1965, shows John Coltrane’s band at the breaking point of avant-garde inspirations. By Richard Brody | | | | | | |
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