Hannah Perry

A Guide to Travel Guides

When you're planning a trip, choosing a guidebook is like choosing a travel companion.

By Hannah Perry | Mar 12 05:01 am ET

Will Readers Be Down With Zadie Smith’s B.O.O.P.?

Short stories have a long history of being overshadowed by the brawnier, sexier novel.

By Hannah Perry | Feb 13 12:17 am ET

The Quiet Girl Runs off at the Mouth but Can't Find the Right Words

Peter Hoeg can’t be accused of lacking ambition.

By Hannah Perry | Nov 19 04:23 am ET

Stealing a Glance at a Complicated Suburban Life

An unjust war, tensions between immigrants and natives, bourgeois complacency—no, this isn’t a rundown from today’s New York Times.

By Hannah Perry | Oct 11 12:13 am ET

Bloody Travels, Recent and Ancient

Part extended ancient history lesson, part memoir, and part journalistic meditation, Travels With Herodotus is acclaimed Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuściński’s final work and, it must be said from

By Hannah Perry | Sep 20 08:31 pm ET

All the World's Onstage at PEN

Imagine bringing Salman Rushdie, Jonathan Franzen, Marilynne Robinson, and eight other writers together for an hour and a half in front of a full house.

By Hannah Perry | Apr 27 12:00 am ET

She's Gone Far From Universal

As the number of people claiming more than one national identity grows ever larger, it can be easy to fall into the "global village" trap, to believe that all cultural differences can be negotiated

By Hannah Perry | Apr 17 12:00 am ET

Duckworth's March Into the Oblivion

Who is the voice of our generation? The literary world's most trite question has inevitably been pored over in recent years by publications from the New York Times to Time magazine.

By Hannah Perry | Feb 20 12:00 am ET

Did She or Didn't She? A Troubled Teen's Trippy Tale

Founding Believer editor Heidi Julavits' new book, The Uses of Enchantment, teases our fundamental assumptions about relationships and the objective nature of truth, even as it entertains the reade

By Hannah Perry | Nov 28 12:00 am ET

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