Millennial fiction, Saul Steinberg's line, the worth of the humanities

The novels of Sally Rooney, Saul Steinberg's The Labyrinth, the worth of the humanities, Kurds in Syria Sponsored by [St. John’s College, Summer Classics]( [How Should a Millennial Be?]( Madeleine Schwartz “The great millennial novelist”—the mantle has been thrust, by Boomers and Gen Xers alike, upon the Irish writer Sally Rooney, whose two carefully observed and gentle comedies of manners both appeared before her twenty-eighth birthday. [A Mind in Line]( Joel Smith Each page of Saul Steinberg’s The Labyrinth feels like a message coming direct from mind to hand and from paper to eye. NYR Daily [Report from Rojava]( Debbie Bookchin Unless the West provides the support necessary to ensure political stability, ISIS will return in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. [Are the Humanities History?]( Michael Massing No doubt the humanities do broaden the mind and deepen the soul. But to dismiss their practical worth seems both short-sighted and self-defeating. [The Equivocal Legacy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman]( Kate Bolick How could it be that this progressive feminist activist followed such an injurious line of thinking on race? You are receiving this message because you signed up for email newsletters from The New York Review. [Update preferences]( The New York Review of Books 435 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 [Unsubscribe](