From the Archive
Goodbye, Columbus
By Philip Roth
The Stupid Classics Book Club
By Elisa GabbertThe project of this book club would be to read all the corny stuff from the canon that we really should have read in school but never did.
The Daily
Mess With a Classic
Poetry Rx
By Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire SchwartzIn our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Kaveh Akbar is on the line.
Poetry Rx
Easter in Sri Lanka: Today Is Loss That Isn’t Loss
By Vyshali ManivannanSunday’s bombings came as a reminder that the cycle of violence continues, along with the trauma it leaves in its wake.
The Daily
Postcards
Feminize Your Canon
By Emma GarmanOur monthly column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors.
Feminize Your Canon
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The Unknowable Artist: Stéphane Mandelbaum
By Cody DelistratyWhere is the line between genius and madness? The Belgian artist, poet, and art thief Stéphane Mandelbaum’s attempt to create a lasting mythology of himself led to a macabre, untimely death.
The Daily
The Big Picture
Eat Your Words
By Valerie StiversCooking up recipes drawn from the works of various writers.
Eat Your Words
Guerre de Plume
By Martha GellhornApocryphal stories would not be worth worrying about if their inventors stuck to the spoken word. What’s a bit of bragging or slander among friends? But when these tales reach print they become accepted fact. No matter how implausible or self-serving, how spiteful or absurd, they are believed. Distinguished professors, scholars, biographers repeat and thus validate the fantasies of apocryphiars (new word). Built-in falsehood, children, is bad.
From the Archive, Issue 79
Letters & Essays
A Brief Correspondence Course
By Ron PadgettWhen I close a letter / with "Cordially," I / blush with shame. / It sounds insincere. / But when a letter / comes to me / with that same closing, / I glow with warmth. /
