Kim Hew-Low

Sep 26, 2024 | thenewinquiry.com | Kim Hew-Low

On the question “how are we to live in an atomic age?” the writer C.S. Lewis declared, in a 1948 essay, that we think “a great deal too much” about atomic annihilation. Referencing this on her podcast, Homemaker Chic—dedicated to “rescuing the art of homemaking from the daily grind with red lips”—the homesteader Shaye Elliott describes taking comfort from Lewis whenever she feels overwhelmed by the state of the world.

Aug 22, 2024 | clereviewofbooks.com | Kim Hew-Low

When Elizabeth “Bunny” Glenn meets the man she will marry for the first time, lingering over mini quiches at a Houston rooftop party in 2010, he asks her if she wants to have kids. She hopes that he is asking flirtatiously.

May 22, 2024 | harpers.org | Kim Hew-Low

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Jan 17, 2024 | thebaffler.com | Kim Hew-Low

The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez. Riverhead Books, 256 pages. 2023. Early in the pandemic, a cartoon by Megan Herbert found its way onto Twitter and eventually the sandwich boards of bookstores. A person stacking books on shelves jokes sardonically to an onlooking reader: “We’ve moved a few things around. Travel books are in the Fantasy section, Politics is in Sci-Fi, and Epidemiology is in Self-Help. Good luck.”This is the atmosphere in which Sigrid Nunez’s latest novel, The Vulnerables, is set.

Jun 23, 2023 | sierraclub.org | Kim Hew-Low