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Gore Vidal: His Life and “Lincoln”
Writing “Lincoln” let Vidal breathe life into his own self-perceived greatness.
Fiction
"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain
The Single Sentence Is Supreme: A Conversation with Dantiel W. Moniz
Genevieve Hudson interviews Dantiel W. Moniz about her new short story collection, “Milk Blood Heat.”
Dispatches from an Unoccupied Future: Reflections on the Palestine Writes Festival
Attendees, participants, and organizers joined together to weave ourselves toward wholeness and repair.
Moving Past Vergangenheitsbewältigung
A new novel about the project of personal and national recollection in Germany.
The Immensity of Brevity: On Ben Okri’s “Prayer for the Living”
Babi Oloko is enchanted by "Prayer for the Living," the new collection of short stories by Ben Okri.
On Literary Awards, Neustadt and Nobel
A scintillating anthology of speeches by winners of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
In Kafka’s Prague
Kafka transformed his native city into a psychic topography of constant anxiety.
The Other Condition: Robert Musil on Theater
An immensely valuable collection of the great modernist’s plays and theater writings.
Process of Elimination: On Guido Morselli’s “Dissipatio H.G.”
Jamie Richards wanders through “Dissipatio H.G.” by Guido Morselli, translated from the Italian by Frederika Randall.
Bangers: On Terry Southern’s “Blue Movie”
Charles Taylor considers Terry Southern's "Blue Movie," which Grove Press recently rereleased in a 50th-anniversary edition.
The Disappointed
How the visionary pessimists Robert Stone and Nathanael West foresaw the Capitol insurrection.
Romance as the New Literary: On Kevin Barry’s “That Old Country Music”
Art Edwards takes in “That Old Country Music,” the new short story collection by Kevin Barry.
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