Columns
-
Weekly Geekery
Nabokov’s epilepsy, heart problems, and unpublished letters. A dictionary for the fleshy bits of brain that store our words. Ephemerality meets Instagram. The secret sauce behind NBC’s Olympics telecast. Your designated BFF might not even know your name.
-
Stories in Their Hair
Jessica Miller writes for Catapult on hair during World War II, using the practical reality of people’s hair to glimpse into war’s ordinary life and extraordinary horrors.
-
This Week in Indie Bookstores
The World Bank houses a bookstore. Unfortunately, it’s closing. Harry Potter is causing a legal dispute between two bookstores in the Philippines, with one store claiming a legal monopoly over the book. CityLab checks out The Last Bookstore, a massive bookstore warehouse…
-
An Explanation, Not a Justification
At Lit Hub, Joyce Chen explains The Seventh Wave’s reason for being (not that she needs to): We were not trying to prove ourselves “right” or defy any odds to become a household name; we simply wanted to exist.
-
Among Strange Victims by Daniel Saldaña París
Salvatore Ruggiero reviews Among Strange Victims by Daniel Saldaña París today in Rumpus Books.
-
Don’t Forget the Bunting
If Basil Bunting were not remembered for “Briggflatts”—his longest and best poem, first published fifty years ago—he might still be remembered as the protagonist of a preposterously eventful twentieth-century life. Poet Basil Bunting had an unconventional life full of interesting journeys…
-
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Brazil’s fading love hotels is my favorite thing today. What happened to Babylon? Congratulations everybody! We ran through our resources even earlier this year! Speaking of things being awful: photographing Syria before and after. Not everything’s bad though, it looks…
-
Spotlight: Jon Gant’s You & Me
Told in second-person narrative, You & Me is a nostalgic and humorous collection of observations, memories, and dreams.
-
Ambiguous Understanding
Author of The Black History of the White House Clarence Lusane addresses Michelle Obama’s statements at the 2016 DNC about the role of slave labor in the construction of the White House: I think [George Washington] always had an ambiguous understanding in relationship…
-
Not a Healer
I thought, why not write the book that really scares you? At the New York Times, Jennifer Schuessler talks with Colson Whitehead about his new book, The Underground Railroad, which features the underground railroad literalized as a railroad, underground.
-
Fifteen Theories on Boys Don’t Cry
Between the mysterious live stream on Ocean’s website and the release date that came and went, no one is really sure what Frank Ocean has planned for his new album Boys Don’t Cry. But the good people at okayplayer. have some the thoughts:…
