Beyond Unapologetic: Susie Bright's "Big Sex, Little Death"
Susie Bright puts sex in its place. She treats sexual freedom and sexual speech as litmus tests for a liberal society.
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Books That Made Us: Charlotte’s Web
Sometimes a book comes along and you feel so lucky that somebody pressed it into your hands to read that you read it right away.
Still Hungry
On Ben Lerner's "Leaving the Atocha Station."
Letter from London: Soot and Ash
Once you begin to look for influences, they seem to be everywhere — in the weather, in politics, in literature and art.
Cut and Paste and Run
So, I find myself wondering, what am I going to do about the man who I think plagiarized me?
Returning to the Scene
Wunderkind
on Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s unlikely career in television.
Mourning and Melancholia: Francisco Goldman’s “Say Her Name”
Old War Stories: An Interview with Geoff Dyer
"I've had such an unusual writing life."
The Ashes that Remain: Boris Pahor's "Necropolis"
Hungarian Masked Ball: Dezso Kosztolányi's "Kornél Esti"
Kosztolányi is considered one of the greatest Hungarian writers, a virtuoso of style and control
Even as Everything Melts: Malcolm Turvey’s “The Filming of Modern Life”
The cinema has accompanied and transformed our history so thoroughly as to be inseparable from it.
In the Charles Wright Museum
All around me were Charles’s lines and poems: his deck, the shrubs and flowers, the weather and hillside, and the Pacific below were all characters.
The Intimate Art: Georgia O'Keeffe's Letters
An Invitation to Forgetting
The specter of forgetting has haunted every advance we have made in externalizing our memories.
Year of the Fire Cock
The book is so unrelentingly erotic and explicit that it could, if you're not careful, cause chafing.