Archive

• Soviet Scars: Elena Chizhova’s “The Time of Women”

  Yelena FurmanMay 20, 2012
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  The Fifty Days of the Hotel Madrid

  Aaron ShulmanMay 19, 2012
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  Farewell to Novels

  "We all write to understand ourselves and to be understood by others... Or, of course, to be misunderstood."

  David R. SlavittMay 19, 2012
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  Myths and Depths: Greil Marcus talks to Simon Reynolds (Part 4)

  "Bob Dylan once said that all of his songs end with 'Good luck.' So maybe all my stuff ends with 'Who knows?'"

  Simon ReynoldsMay 18, 2012

• Erratic Mothering: Alison Bechdel’s “Are You My Mother?”

  "'You can't live and write at the same time,' Bechdel puts it early on. She can't, maybe, but she has made something that can."

  May 18, 2012

• The Lost Novel: On Kerouac's "The Sea Is My Brother"

  "The primordial scribblings preserved in 'The Sea is My Brother' offer us the fantasy of an unmediated encounter with Kerouac."

  Merve EmreMay 17, 2012

• Growing Down

  "Silverstein communicates his concern for his readers on every page."

  Mike Sonksen a.k.a. Mike the PoetMay 17, 2012
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  Krazy Kriticism: The Tics of the Trade

  "The problem with Krazy Kat is the same as its genius: It cannot be consumed quickly or easily."

  Sarah BoxerMay 16, 2012

  • Comics

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  Golden Filth: Ed Sanders's "Fug You"

  "Girls peel their lip skin off with razor blades while people fight over pots of glue, and blood from hypodermic needles squirts everywhere."

  Byron ColeyMay 15, 2012
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  Portrait of a Press: Wave Books

  "If you're getting the sense that Wave has a different idea of what constitutes a 'book' than other publishers, you're on to something."

  Broc RossellMay 15, 2012

• Words That Kill: Kawamata Chiaki’s “Death Sentences”

  D. Harlan WilsonMay 14, 2012
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  The Questionnaire: Matthew Specktor

  The QuestionnaireMay 14, 2012
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  Envy, or, The Last Infirmity

  "To become the person who wrote that prose, that poetry, would mean that I had, at long last, truly become myself."

  Sven BirkertsMay 14, 2012

• The Love That Dared to Write Its Name

  "1948 was a sort of annus 'mahr-velous,' if not mirabilis, for public discussion of homosexuality."

  Stan PerskyMay 13, 2012
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  The Education of a Vietnamese American Writer

  "I stole home and robbed my parents of their American Dream."

  Andrew Lam, Mariam LamMay 12, 2012

  • Education

• Picaresque Homage: Terese Svoboda's "Bohemian Girl"

  "This is a novel populated by characters dwelling in ambiguity, determined to avoid clarification."

  Tobias CarrollMay 12, 2012