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Post-Breakup Fiction; Comma Stutterers
I recently got out of serious relationship. Since then I have not been able to read, though I usually love sad, sappy love stories. Can you recommend some books ...
January 27, 2012 01:30 PM | 4 comments
Staff Picks: ‘The Univited Guests,’ ‘Capital’
I am always interested in reading about Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, and all the more so when a profile begins thusly: “Yayoi Kusama is 82 years old. But ...
January 27, 2012 08:00 AM
‘The Rape of the Lock’
I have a weakness for the heroic couplet, and anything comical. Here, for example, is Alexander Pope on coffee, in that part of “The Rape of the Lock” where ...
January 26, 2012 01:00 PM | 2 comments
Selected Letters of William S. Burroughs
WSB to Laura Lee and Mortimer Burroughs Dear Mother and Dad, I am sorry.. Can only say time accelerated and skidded—No ...
January 26, 2012 08:00 AM | 3 comments
On the Shelf
A cultural news roundup. Who threatened Rushdie? The author takes his critics to Twitter. A victory for publishers. “It was only when I read his article ...
January 25, 2012 01:30 PM | 1 comments
The Troubadour of Honed Banality
A., my girlfriend, is originally from Moscow. Her mother lives around the corner from us in Queens and throws dinner parties. It’s mainly an older, cultured ...
January 25, 2012 08:00 AM | 4 comments
Mistaken Identity
On March 29, 1962, the Village Voice ran a full-page ad touting the merits of William Gaddis’s The Recognitions—a book which had been published a good ...
January 24, 2012 01:00 PM | 7 comments
Adam Johnson on ‘The Orphan Master’s Son’
On December 19, 2011, one of the main characters in Adam Johnson’s new novel, The Orphan Master’s Son, died. His name was Kim Jong Il. Had Kim lived, he ...
January 24, 2012 08:00 AM | 1 comments
The Spring Issue
Alan Hollinghurst and Jeffrey Eugenides on the art of fiction.
The final installment of Roberto Bolaño’s The Third Reich!
Fiction from Clarice Lispector, Adam Wilson, and Paul Murray. Poems by David Wagoner, Jonathan Galassi, Dorothea Lasky, Gottfried Benn, and much more.
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