


From the Archive
Goodbye, Columbus
By Philip Roth
The canon of war fiction written by women has only recently been adequately recognized.
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.
This week, we’ve lowered the paywall on Toni Morrison’s Art of Fiction interview, a poem by Philip Levine, and a short story by Gisela Elsner.
Our monthly column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors.
There were hundreds of books in the series, all of which took place in a heterosexual hellscape of babies and boyfriends as far as the eye could see.
Cooking up recipes drawn from the works of various writers.
These are fragments of a conversation held in New York City on December 28th, 1978. My friend Peter Orlovsky was also in attendance. This dialogue was taped at the Chelsea Hotel, walking 23rd Street to a coffee shop, in a taxi, up 6th Avenue, walking in the village…
I like cats as far as creatures go. I like almost any animal that does not have horns or scales on it for that matter, but I especially like cats. Any sort and denomination: spotted or solid, fat or thin, with and without fleas. I like them and admire them and almost anything they do is a pleasure to me. The way they can walk around the rim of a bathtub, for instance, without falling in and the way they can get comfortable in any old place. There is nothing better than a cat looking out f…