Brigitte Aiton, Age 44
New York, New York
“How do you deal with the fact that the person you’re with might hate you?”
It was the first summer we were together. We were twenty-three years old. …more
Jean-Paul Sartre famously said that “hell is other people,” which is true enough, but truer still is hell is other people’s boyfriends (or girlfriends, as the case may be). …more
On writing about war:
This year, according to my careful calculations (or at least according to the bracket I just hastily filled out), Syracuse University will win the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. …more
Kay Ryan has been compared to Emily Dickinson, and I like to imagine Dickinson and Marianne Moore reading her with sly commiseration. Unlike some poets with recognizable styles, Ryan does not write the same poem again and again, and her sharp eye is both benevolent and unflinching.
Marwa Arsanios and Vartan Avakian are still young. They belong to a generation of artists who grew up during the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), and their unique experience with artistic research in Lebanon is revealing new narratives for a catastrophic historical episode. …more
A former neo-Nazi’s memoir describes a violent life in the white supremacist movement and his transformative experiences in prison. …more
“I used to always think of paintings as big large novels. And then all of these little drawings that I’ve been making, I think of them more as a bunch of poems equaling a chapbook or maybe a bunch of short stories…” …more
ABRACADABRA
★★★★★ (3 out of 5)
Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing abracadabra. …more
Wonderful World taps the fretful zeitgeist, but trips along with freshness and humor and pleasant darkness, like Broken Flowers or Happy-Go-Lucky. …more
When Scorsese makes a new film, the question is less whether it’s good than whether the decision to make it in the first place was good.
Submission Guidelines
by Jane Roper
Dear Writer:
Thank you for your interest in our publication. …more
I have been stalking—I mean reading—Chang-rae Lee since his first book, Native Speaker, was published in 1994. …more
Peter Bognanni’s first novel mixes punk rock and the wild creativity of Buckminster Fuller into a tender and believable chronicle of teen sorrow. …more
“The thing I hate most about advertising is that it attracts all the young, bright, creative people, leaving us with only the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.”
- Banksy …more
“The early messages in my family were that women are the source of power. They made the household decisions, held the purse strings, and if the woman of the house was not happy, no one was happy. “ …more
“Big American Trip addresses our insecurities as artists, lovers, and citizens who lack the ability to understand one another, regardless of which language we speak.” …moreNEEDLEPOINT
★★★★★ (5 out of 5)
Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing needlepoint. …more
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Reality Hunger, the newest book from the always interesting David Shields, comes sheathed in glowing blurbs from the likes of Lydia Davis, Ben Marcus, Amy Hempel and Jonathan Lethem. Needless to say, I had high expectations …more
One unintended consequence of David Ross’s appearance on the Colbert Report last year has been the misunderstanding of intention. …more
“This voice is neither howl, yowl, nor whisper, but something more like a quiet monotone, slightly ironic and yet also depressed, lonely, and compellingly vulnerable.” …more
I’m 18, I’m standing under a spotlight with no clothes on, and the photographer is pointing at my thighs. …more
We did right by your death and went out,
Right away, to a public place to drink,
To be with each other, to face it. …more
A meticulous and gripping eyewitness account of the events that culminated in the 1973 CIA-backed military coup and assassination of Salvador Allende.
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The Ask tells the story of Milo Burke, the latest in Lipsyte’s long line of anti-heroes. By the end, Lipsyte has strengthened his claim as our greatest comic novelist. …more
A new volume of stories by Mavis Gallant traces the writer’s development from early stories of bewilderment and disappointment to the sharp, incisive later work of a master. …moreTHE ERECTION I HAD LAST THURSDAY
★★★★★ (2 out of 5)
Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the erection I had last Thursday. …more
Jason Anderson is a prolific singer/songwriter from New England who has now settled in Brooklyn. He runs around, wild-eyed, singing at the top of his lungs about not giving up, and life’s best moments, and being in love. …more
Ali Shaw’s novel concerns a modern-day Midas, a cold and inhospitable island, and a young woman whose body is inexorably transforming. …more
On June 13th, 1971, in the midst of the Vietnam War, the New York Times began to publish excerpts of an internal Pentagon document that detailed the top-secret history of US-Vietnam relations from 1945 to 1967. …more
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