Readings

Hazlitt talks to the Academy Award-winning director of A Separation, about his latest film, The Past, and the moral crises at the heart of his work.

Reading The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri, Durga Chew-Bose felt a long-abiding familiarity with the novel’s premise—one she recognized from her father’s stories—and with the author, a first-generation Bengali writer who was raised on the East Coast. Here she discovered how it is to read when the emotional stake is not strictly your own.