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The Sentence Is a Lonely Place
by Gary Lutz
What is it that gives every line — in certain works of fiction — the force and feel of a climax?
On the Eve of Destruction
by Alena Graedon
Fallout shelters are just outmoded relics of a bygone Cold War paranoia. (Right?)
A Certain Kind of Murder
by Theo Schell-Lambert
How an unusually dark 1961 novel dissolved the laws of youth fiction and turned hundreds of Pennsylvania ten-year olds into adults.
Notes on the Meltdown
by Joshua Clover
The bailout is a credit bubble with nothing to buy: $700 billion to stave off the collapse of our current system by inflating it one more time.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
interviewed by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
The author of
Purple Hibiscus and
Half of a Yellow Sun rescues the historical novel from tight dresses and Renaissance Florence.
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Tom Dumm
interviewed by Jill Stauffer
A political philosopher describes how misguided American ideas of self-reliance make for an incredibly lonely society.
Gordon Lish
interviewed by John Lee and Vernon Chatman
The legendary editor of Raymond Carver, Amy Hempel, and others exchanges a series of deranged postcards with two of his friends.
Robert Alter
interviewed by Rich Cohen
The greatest translator of biblical literature in modern times describes the greatest poetry that survives from the ancient world.
