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Who Are We? Where Did We Come From? Where Are We Going?
David BreithauptDec 1, 2014
- SF
Les Plesko Remembered
We talked about books and ideas, and odd moments of the day, but our psychological wounds weren’t topics of conversation; they were the furnace of our work.
Paul MandelbaumNov 30, 2014
- Fiction
A Wilderness Guide to Grief
A wilderness guide to grief.
Justin WadlandNov 29, 2014
- Nonfiction
Five Minutes with Bryan Stevenson
Jessica PishkoNov 25, 2014
- Nonfiction
Dialects by Design
Alison Lurie talks about "what people might see in buildings, and what they were saying to us."
Alizah SalarioNov 20, 2014
- Memoir & Essay
A Funny Process
Charles Shafaieh interviews Colm Tóibín on "Nora Webster"
Charles ShafaiehNov 15, 2014
- Fiction
We’re in This Barroom Brawl Together
Miriam Toews on the Fiction of Grief and Comedy
Christine Fischer GuyNov 14, 2014
- Fiction
An Interview with Andrew Lipstein, Digital Publisher
Contributor Diana Wagman interviews Andrew Lipstein, creator and editor of 0s&1s Novels.
Diana WagmanNov 7, 2014
A New Collection of California Prose
"Trying to capture California in one book is like attempting to catch a hurricane in a shot glass."
Dinah LenneyNov 6, 2014
- Nonfiction
Fun, Fury, and the American Studies Association
An Interview with ASA President Lisa Duggan
Sarah MesleNov 6, 2014
- Cultural Studies
PODCAST #71: Craig Davidson
Craig Davidson is the author of Cataract City, a novel about two friends in Niagara Falls. Previously he wrote Rust and Bone, and also writes under his pen names, Nick Cutter and Patrick Lestewka.
Colin MarshallNov 4, 2014
Blank Space on the Family Tree
An Interview with Vanessa Manko
Natasha AwasthiOct 30, 2014
- Fiction
The Love Letters of Heinrich Himmler
"The Decent One" heralds a new kind of Holocaust documentary, one made by a documentarian two generations removed from the original horror, one that dares to look at a perpetrator with the assumption that he is not an animal or a monster but a human being.
Laurie WinerOct 29, 2014
- History
Bookstore MFA
Paul Legault interviews Carl Adamshick
Paul LegaultOct 29, 2014
To Live Ideologically Is to Narrow Your Life
An Interview with Xiaolu Guo
Anita FelicelliOct 29, 2014
The Man Who Read Too Much
"How can you have a collection of the best American mystery stories of the 19th century and not include Poe?"
Art TaylorOct 27, 2014