Amerikas
by Adam Thirlwell
Understanding the possibilities of translation through a miniature history of the novel.
The Military-Toy-Industrial Complex
by Jason Boog
G.I. Joe purified the army for a new generation, scrubbing away the shame of Vietnam.
Hunting the Windy Vapors
by Rachel Poliquin
The stomach is a cauldron that cooks foods in a half-fermented sauce—and other eighteenth-century theories of digestion.
Elizabeth Bishop in correspondence with Robert Lowell
Bishop’s letters and postcards to Lowell, selected from the poets’ voluminous correspondence.
Bruce Jay Friedman
interviewed by Amy Sohn
The novelist (
Stern) and screenwriter (
Splash) describes the care with which a ten-dollar-a-page check from the
Antioch Review must be spent.
Will Eno
interviewed by Patricia Mulgraw
“I grew up in Waslala, Nicaragua, the favorite daughter of a beloved mayor. We had a burro named Gil.”
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Nico Muhly
interviewed by Sean Michaels
The twenty-six-year-old composer and Philip Glass protégé has lately been arranging songs using comments on YouTube.
Diane Williams
interviewed by Kevin Sampsell
“To try to reproduce something I understand would be a big bore.”
