Archive

• The Scholar’s Art: On Susan Stewart

  Jan 19, 2012

• 2050 or Bust

  Cairo is a city often captured by stereotype: its unruly traffic, pollution, slums, decay, and general chaos, framed as an insult to the Pharaohs.

  Jan 18, 2012

• Postal Modernism

  On two volumes of letters by Ernest Hemingway and Samuel Beckett.

  Jan 17, 2012

• The Art of Slacking: Paul Hendrickson's "Hemingway's Boat"

  Steven G. KellmanJan 17, 2012

  • Nonfiction

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  Letter From Detroit

  For every abandoned business, store, school, or church in the city, a new one has been built in the suburbs.

  Ingrid NortonJan 16, 2012
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  Love, Boxing, and Hunter S. Thompson, Part 2

  I decided to get high.

  John KayeJan 15, 2012
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  Love, Boxing, and Hunter S. Thompson, Part 1

  His last words to me as he opened the door and stepped into the hallway were: "Feel free to use any of this in the script."

  John KayeJan 15, 2012
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  Impersonating Ourselves

  It's no wonder that we are often confused by impostors, delighted by sock puppets, and relieved — most of us, anyway — that we remain singular.

  Matthew SpecktorJan 14, 2012

• Finishing Touches

  On the posthumous work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.

  Jan 13, 2012

• Heroine Chic: Tarpé Mills' "Miss Fury"

  Jan 12, 2012

• Back to the Garden: Jane Shaw's "Octavia, Daughter of God"

  Lindsay RecksonJan 12, 2012

  • History

  • Nonfiction

• A Pirate’s Life for Me: Sara Levine's "Treasure Island!!!"

  The story eddies into a piercing family drama, in which its undercurrents of sadness and regret can finally rise to the surface.

  Alison PowellJan 10, 2012

  • Humor

  • Literary Fiction

• Household Saint

  21’s eloquence is visual, and it is a very real eloquence.

  David RothJan 9, 2012

  • Nonfiction

  • Young Adult & Children’s Literature

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  Pacific Overture: An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson

  I think that science fiction is my realist fiction about life in southern California.

  Istvan Csicsery-RonayJan 9, 2012
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  Cattle Calls and Contract Players: An Interview with Clint Eastwood

  I was a contract player at Universal and I didn’t know whether I was good at it or not.

  Paul NelsonJan 9, 2012

• Pop Will Meet Itself: Simon Reynolds's "Retromania"

  Whatever your take on this classically postmodern conundrum, you're liable to come away from Retromania with more questions than you had going in.

  Mike McGonigalJan 9, 2012

  • Cultural Studies

  • Nonfiction