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Donald E. Westlake: The Writer’s Writer’s Writer
Scott Bradfield celebrates the late Donald E. Westlake.
All Essays
Midwest Interludes: Three Vignettes of the Chicago Renaissance
Liesl Olson shares three vignettes from “Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis.”
Game of Thrones: Season 7, “Beyond the Wall”
JON SNOW: I would like to be excluded from this narrative.
GAME OF THRONES: NOPE.
How to Remember My Mother
The Return of Fun: BOOM! Box Comics Make Progressive Politics Entertaining
Aaron Kashtan looks at the many innovative and noteworthy comics coming out of BOOM! Box imprint.
McGregor Versus Mayweather and the Puncher’s Chance
Does MMA champion Conor McGregor have a puncher’s chance against Floyd Mayweather? No. And yes.
The Bodies We Won’t See: Gary Simmons and “Face to Face” at the California African American Museum
Evan Kleekamp on several exhibits currently at the California African American Museum.
Christopher Nolan in Command: The Dunkirk Spirit Fleshed
How does Christopher Nolan's "Dunkirk" differ from earlier on-screen iterations of the evacuation?
A New New White Man: Toni Morrison’s “Playing in the Dark” Turns 25
Joseph Darda on the enduring importance of Toni Morrison’s “Playing in the Dark” as the pathbreaking collection turns 25.
Awaiting the Real Day: An Excerpt from Yuri Slezkine’s “The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution”
An excerpt from “The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution” by Yuri Slezkine, published this month by Princeton University Press.
The Silence That Remains: On Translating the Poems of Ghassan Zaqtan
Fady Joudah reflects on his translations of the Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan.
Somebody’s Protest Novel
Chabon apologizes for Israel even when he’s critiquing it. But in 2007, he wrote a novel with an alternate history that sheds a light on the actual present.
Game of Thrones: Season 7, "Eastwatch"
That bowl of fermented crab seems sort of unsteady; how do you keep it from spilling if you’re taking that little rowboat on the ocean? Invest in some good Tupperware, would be my advice.
On Not Knowing Yourself: What’s Adam Phillips Saying About Life Story?
Brandon Kreitler on the problem of biography in the wake of Freud.
Transformative Suffering
Emmanuel Ordóñez Angulo on what Alejandro González Iñárritu's VR installation "Carne y Arena" could teach us about suffering.
Delicate Relations to the Real: Walking Donald Barthelme’s Houston
Robert Cremins takes a tour of Donald Barthelme’s Houston.
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