Emily Bobrow
Journalist, Critic
Emily Bobrow is a staff editor and reporter for The Wall Street Journal’s Review section. Previously, she worked as a staff editor and writer at at The Economist, where she still contributes occasionally.
The Economist
What should you write about your homeland when you cannot return?
Elif Shafak, a novelist, returns with an ambitious book about water and memory
The Economist
Colm Tóibín’s “Long Island” is an entrancing follow-up to “Brooklyn”
Appropriately enough, one of the themes of the sequel is the difficulty of returns
The Wall Street Journal
Yes, Women Have Midlife Crises, Too
Novelists are finally taking up the once taboo subject of menopause.
The Economist
Paul Auster was the bard of Brooklyn
A recurring theme of his novels was life’s coincidences
The Wall Street Journal
‘The Limits’ Review: Nell Freudenberger’s Covid Tale
A globe-spanning novel examines how the pandemic strained family life.
The Economist
There’s a new hit musical about American history in town
Produced by Hillary Clinton and Malala Yousafzai, “Suffs” dramatises women’s fight for the right to vote
The Wall Street Journal
Why Are Women Both Sadder and Happier Than Men?
An investigation into the so-called "Female Happiness Paradox"
The Economist
Two new memoirs about polyamory and divorce
Leslie Jamison and Molly Roden Winter explore modern marriage
The Wall Street Journal
On Gaza, an American Rabbi Decries Hamas but Finds Fault With Israel’s Leaders Too
Sharon Brous criticizes those on both sides who embrace violence as an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The Wall Street Journal
Scott Pelley Doesn’t Want You to Look Away From Ukraine
The ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent, winner of 51 Emmys, has thrived on showing viewers ‘what they should be paying attention to.’
The Wall Street Journal
Championing Diversity From Inside Google
Annie Jean-Baptiste has the job of getting the company’s not-very-diverse developers to make its products more inclusive
The Wall Street Journal
A Free-Speech Advocate Says That Colleges Are Doing It Wrong
Greg Lukianoff fights efforts to silence controversial voices on college campuses: ‘This just makes it worse.’
The Wall Street Journal
An Astronaut With ‘Bad Eyesight and a Fear of Heights’
Mike Massimino hopes that people can see themselves in his tales from orbit, including a nearly disastrous blunder fixing the Hubble telescope
The Economist
Jesmyn Ward returns with an evocative tale of slavery
“Let Us Descend” takes its name from Dante’s vision of hell