Howard Schneider
Howard Schneider, a writer and editor, wrote a teenage fan letter to Ralph Ellison. Ellison’s reply isn’t in this book, as he never sent one.
Posts by Howard Schneider
Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife
BY ARIEL SABAR DOUBLEDAY, 2020 Ariel Sabar probably considered “veritas”—Latin for “truth” and the motto of Harvard University—the perfect ironic title for this book.... Read More
The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison
EDITED BY JOHN F. CALLAHAN AND MARC C. CONNER RANDOM HOUSE, 2019 1060 PP.; $50.00 Reviewing a collection of letters by a writer can... Read More
Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
BY ANDREW MARANTZ VIKING, 2019 400PP.; $28.00 What happened when New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz investigated some of the most sinister inhabitants of... Read More
Machines Like Me
BY IAN MCEWAN NAN A. TALESE/DOUBLEDAY, 2019 333 PP., $26.95 Early on in this novel, the momentous question it raises—what is a human being?—becomes... Read More
A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
BY ADAM GOPNIK BASIC BOOKS, 2019 272 PP., $26.00 The late pundit Irving Kristol, whose career began in left-wing politics and ended in neoconservatism,... Read More
Underground: A Human History of the Worlds beneath Our Feet
BY WILL HUNT SPIEGEL & GRAU, 2018 275 PP., $27.00 Underground is a strange little book, and not just because it reveres caves, catacombs,... Read More
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
BY YUVAL NOAH HARARI SPEIGEL & GRAU, 2018 400 PP.; $28.00 Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari is the author of Sapiens: A Brief History... Read More