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The latest from Zoë Heller

Zoë Heller’s The Believers ponders the chasm between those who are fundamentally skeptical and those drawn to systems of belief. See also.

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Florey’s Script & Scribble: on the death of cursive

My current contribution to NPR’s Books We Like is devoted to Kitty Burns Florey’s Script & Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting: At five, teary-eyed, I announced to my mother that I never wanted to grow up, because adults’ handwriting was ugly. When she asked what I meant, I pointed to her signature — a towering and illegible series . . .

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Bookforum’s Cultural Obituaries series to debut 4/9

Bookforum‘s “Cultural Obituaries” discussion series begins at the New York Public Library on April 9, with Making Sense of Black Nationalism in the Obama Era, an event organized around a forthcoming piece by Victor LaValle. Yesterday I asked my friend Chris Lehmann — co-editor of the magazine and a fellow LaValle fan — if he could tell me a little . . .

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