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On April 15, Kim Jong-Un, the new leader of North Korea, gave his long-awaited maiden speech, on the hundredth anniversary of his grandfather, Kim Il Sung, the ...
May 16, 2012 04:39 PM | 1 comments
In the fall of 1946, my grandfather was twenty years old and back home in Pittsburgh, having completed his English degree at Purdue and a tour with the navy. ...
May 16, 2012 02:05 PM | 6 comments
I’m not sure who had the ball when George Clinton passed by in a golf cart. It could’ve been Mike D. It could’ve been Yauch. I just remember standing ...
May 16, 2012 12:00 PM | 3 comments
In the Evergreen Review he founded, a moving tribute to Barney Rosset. The best-read cities in America. Cooking Cather. Mike McGrady, perpetrator of sexy ...
May 16, 2012 08:00 AM
“When your life is half over, I think you have to see the face of death in order to start writing seriously. There are people who see the end quickly, like ...
May 15, 2012 05:27 PM | 5 comments
Dear Betty Draper Francis, As I write this I’m live-streaming President Barack Obama’s Barnard College commencement speech on my laptop. What’s a ...
May 15, 2012 04:03 PM | 6 comments
Bret Easton Ellis and Terry Southern on the art of fiction.
An essay by John Jeremiah Sullivan and a portfolio by Geoff Dyer.
Fiction from Lorrie Moore and David Means. Poems by Adrienne Rich, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Frederick Seidel, and much more!
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“Writers of either gender ought to be able to do the opposite sex—that's one basic test of competence, after all.”