Farrar Straus & Giroux Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/farrar-straus-giroux/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:17:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Farrar Straus & Giroux Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/farrar-straus-giroux/ 32 32 Public Picks 2024 https://www.publicbooks.org/public-picks-2024/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:00:49 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=58448 What were the books of 2024 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us?

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]]> The Author and the Eulogist: On Love and Death in Nonfiction https://www.publicbooks.org/the-author-and-the-eulogist-on-love-and-death-in-nonfiction/ Tue, 30 Jul 2024 15:00:24 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56874 Authorial responsibility to a real subject—living or dead—is one of art’s unresolved and probably unresolvable ethical questions.

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]]> The Writing “I” and the Reading “I”: Sheila Heti and the New Frontiers of the Personal https://www.publicbooks.org/the-writing-i-and-the-reading-i-sheila-hetis-alphabetical-diaries-and-the-new-frontiers-of-the-personal/ Tue, 09 Jul 2024 15:00:23 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56782 In her latest, Sheila Heti embarks on an inverted Oulipian experiment, producing content in a fundamentally unrestricted manner.

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]]> Public Picks 2023 https://www.publicbooks.org/public-picks-2023/ Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:00:07 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=54669 What were the books of 2023 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us?

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]]> Capitalism Alone Is Not the Problem https://www.publicbooks.org/capitalism-alone-is-not-the-problem/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 15:00:46 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53782 Eleanor Catton’s "Birnam Wood" is a leftist novel filled with radicals who fail to exemplify their own ideals.

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]]> Tender Gossip: Darryl Pinckney’s “Come Back in September” https://www.publicbooks.org/tender-gossip-darryl-pinckneys-come-back-in-september/ Thu, 02 Mar 2023 16:00:12 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=51599 Is there a writing life than can safely dispense with categories like identity and commitment, which count so much in how we live now?

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]]> Public Picks 2022 https://www.publicbooks.org/public-picks-2022/ Wed, 07 Dec 2022 16:00:18 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=51058 What were the books of 2022 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us?

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]]> “The Breath of Life”: Sheila Heti on Art, Loss, and Immortality https://www.publicbooks.org/the-breath-of-life-sheila-heti-on-art-loss-and-immortality/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 16:00:18 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=51000 “Let it become the thing that leads you through your days for years on end—just allowing that problem to live in front of you and to guide you.”

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]]> Into the Woods with Yiyun Li https://www.publicbooks.org/into-the-woods-with-yiyun-li/ Wed, 16 Nov 2022 16:00:32 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=50983 Fairy tales—like Li’s Book of Goose—are so scary because there is no cushion between you and the will of the world, no room for mistakes.

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]]> Freedom’s Stakes https://www.publicbooks.org/freedoms-stakes/ Fri, 12 Nov 2021 16:00:55 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=46138 Postwar culture was divided between “freedom” and “totalitarianism.” Or was it?

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