Lisa Borst

Apr 9, 2024 | bookforum.com | Lisa Borst

Nicholson Baker learns to draw Finding a Likeness: How I Got Somewhat Better at Art By Nicholson Baker. New York: Penguin Press. 352 pages. $35.

Aug 29, 2023 | bookforum.com | Lisa Borst

THE DUBLIN-BORN NOVELIST PAUL MURRAY, who entered adulthood during Ireland’s rapid modernization in the 1990s, writes fiction about the problems that modernity everywhere has failed to solve. His characters come up against cruelty and abuse, inequality, grief, terrible loneliness, death—but generally their problems boil down to one of two sources, their families or their money.

Aug 7, 2023 | truthdig.com | Lisa Borst |Ari Brostoff |Cecilia Corrigan |Jon Dieringer |A. S. Hamrah |Arielle Isack | +3 more

When a movie becomes a mass culture phenomenon, like Barbie, any negative criticism of it runs the risk of coming off hysterical. Any meanness toward it becomes the mirror version of the reactions of fans who see the movie in the theater again and again, who cry during certain scenes each time, and who tell the world about it on social media with a great sense of pride and purpose, or even with a certain amount of shock about its power over them.

Aug 4, 2023 | nplusonemag.com | Lisa Borst

When a movie becomes a mass culture phenomenon, like Barbie, any negative criticism of it runs the risk of coming off hysterical. Any meanness toward it becomes the mirror version of the reactions of fans who see the movie in the theater again and again, who cry during certain scenes each time, and who tell the world about it on social media with a great sense of pride and purpose, or even with a certain amount of shock about its power over them.

Jul 20, 2023 | nplusonemag.com | Lisa Borst

I should not have brought the baby. It was beautiful in San Francisco, warm and breezy, and my friends were on the waterfront across from Oracle Park, perched on the rocks with cherries and beer.