


From the Archive
Goodbye, Columbus
By Philip Roth
Valerie Stivers takes to the high seas with recipes inspired by the Aubrey-Maturin series.
In 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.
Hilton Als walks us through his new David Zwirner exhibition, “God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin.”
Our monthly column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors.
Written toward the end of Jansson’s life, “Once, at a park,” starts out as a classic piece on writer’s block—but there is much more going on.
Cooking up recipes drawn from the works of various writers.
Dean Faulkner Wells, who has put down here William Faulkner’s ghost story “The Werewolf as he told it to her and her cousin Jill (Mr. Bill’s daughter) and her cousin Vicki and the other children of Oxford, is Mr. Bill’s niece. She was named after her father Dean, who was Mr. Bill’s youngest and favorite brother. Ten years separated the two brothers, but they were very close and enjoyed one another’s company in many moods and moments. Dean Swift Faulkner was killed in an airplane crash when he …
By the time of his death in 2003, at age fifty, Roberto Bolaño was already a somewhat legendary figure. A Chilean who spent most of his life in poverty and exile, Bolaño helped found the Infrarealist poetry movement in Mexico City. Later, he settled in the town of Blanes, on Spain’s Costa Brava. In the mid-nineties—according to legend—Bolaño set poetry aside, hoping to support his wife and young child by writing fiction. Over the next ten years, he produced a string of books, including By Nig…