Archive

• Black and White

  Insofar as poverty is the problem, Warren argues, history has nothing to do with the solution.

  Jun 13, 2011
• 

  What Was African American Literature? A Symposium

  Warren leaves us with several productively troubling conclusions.

  Jun 13, 2011
• 

  The Formidable Work of the Present

  A powerhouse of a book.

  Jun 13, 2011
• 

  Wasness

  Warren's argument feels familiar.

  Jun 13, 2011
• 

  The Mysterious Island

  I'm writing this because I just found out that my favorite bookseller in the world is dead.

  Jun 11, 2011
• 

  Larry Flynt at Home

  After all is said and done, who would you prefer as your next President? A Hollywood ham, an addle-brained astronaut, or a smut peddler who cares?

  Jun 10, 2011
• Astounding Cosmic News: Matthew Zapruder's "Come On All You Ghosts"

  MATTHEW ZAPRUDER WILL SPEAK TO YOU. This isn’t a metaphor, or a mere recommendation: it’s a description of method. In “Come On All You Ghosts...

  Jun 9, 2011

  • Poetry

• Stars Inside Your Thumb

  A real-life horror lies at the heart of Hicok's book.

  Jun 9, 2011

  • Poetry

• Once Children

  ADULTS WHO WERE ONCE CHILDREN tend to agree: we are who we are because of fairy tales. Once upon a time, they were the clearest — and most just-seemin...

  Jun 8, 2011
• Strange Lights

  The originality here lies in the author's ability to reshuffle the materials of pop literature and contemplate them anew.

  Jun 8, 2011
• 

  The Room and the Elephant

  On internet criticism, Wikipedia, and the waning of expertise.

  Jun 7, 2011
• 

  Man Is Not Cat Food

  Are we in danger, then, of a widespread, coordinated, animal revolt?

  Jun 6, 2011
• 

  Advertising Degree Zero: William Gibson's "Zero History"

  This future is a scarier place, by far, than any that SF has yet imagined.

  Jun 3, 2011

  • Fiction

• Boiling Point

  The literary world tends to think of genre fiction in very short-hand terms, defined by rigid conventions, styles, plots, and readerships.

  Jun 3, 2011
• Tall Redhead Syndrome

  THE MEMOIR WAS ONCE a venerable literary genre — more compelling and immediate than biography, more inclusive than the novel. There was only one...

  Jun 2, 2011
• 

  A Reader's Guide to Peter Mountford: An Interview

  Finance and economics clearly play an important role in contemporary history, but for some reason there’s very little “literary” fiction about them.

  Jun 1, 2011