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Patrick Leigh Fermor, center, with members of the General Heinrich Kreipe Abduction Team: Georgios Tyrakis, William Stanley Moss, Emmanouil Paterakis, and ...
May 17, 2013 04:29 PM
Writes filmmaker Tom Bean, “George’s first piece of ‘participatory journalism’ was to pitch in a baseball all-star game at Yankee Stadium in 1958. He ...
May 17, 2013 02:07 PM
Even if you’ve been reading Janet Malcolm for years, the critical appreciations collected in Forty-one False Starts may surprise you. The title essay is (or ...
May 17, 2013 12:41 PM
We won’t pretend to be completely disinterested, but we genuinely believe a two- or three-year subscription to The Paris Review is a great graduation gift. ...
May 17, 2013 10:32 AM
In Japanese, tsundoku means “the act of buying books and not reading them, leaving them to pile up.” The Cocktail Chart of Film and Literature is quite an ...
May 17, 2013 09:30 AM
Part First In the evening of his first day in Europe, Lambert Strether anxiously imagines sucking his friend Waymarsh’s cock. He hasn’t ever sucked ...
May 16, 2013 03:36 PM | 10 comments
Deborah Eisenberg and and Mark Leyner on the art of fiction.
Fiction from David Gates, Ottessa Moshfegh, Mark Leyner, and more.
Poems by Stephen Dunn, Ange Mlinko, and Frederick Seidel.
Nonfiction by David Searcy and Vivian Gornick.
2011
“Because I don’t work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock.”