Merve Emre

Merve Emre is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker.
Essays

The Apostle of Love

How Thomas Mann discovered sensual education in The Magic Mountain
Merve Emre
November 20, 2024
Essays

The Critic as Friend

The challenge of reading generously
Merve Emre
June 10, 2024
Interviews

Rachel Cusk

The novelist on the “feminine non-state of non-being”
Merve Emre
March 4, 2024