The End of the World, and of Sixth Grade
On Fresh Air, Maureen Corrigan reviews The Age of Miracles, a new novel by Karen Thompson Walker about “the slowing” of the world, told by an eleven year old girl, Julia. “Sure,…
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Lost In Translation
Prospero brings to light the homogeneous nature of American and British book markets, remarking: “When it comes to international literature, English readers are the worst-served in the Western World.” Only…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s all look in on the fire devastation FROM SPACE. Today is famous dead people doing things: Einstein on the beach and Proust playing air guitar. There is nothing quite…
The Gideon’s Bible, Kindle Edition
If you left your favorite religious text at home on your next business trip to Newcastle, don’t sweat it. The Hotel Indigo Newcastle is swapping all their bed stand Gideon’s…
“The Well-Hung Boy Next Door”
In a GQ profile of James Deen, Wells Tower explores the secrets to the porn star’s sexual talent and industry success both on and off set, and argues that he…
Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me
“I’m sure someone out there has a workable solution. But what do I know? I make comic books and write about jazz. I do know the difference between right and…
The Endless Hustle
“Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked,…
Notable San Francisco: 7/2-7/8
This Week in San Francisco –welcome to July, y’all. Monday 7/2: Quiet Lightning, San Francisco’s mix-tape-reading that publishes as a monthly journal, is on at Galería de la Raza. Featuring…
Notable New York, This Week 7/2-7/8
This week in NYC: Very little. I suppose there’s a holiday happening. MONDAY 7/2: László Krasznahorkai, author of Satantango, gives a rare reading at HousingWorks Bookstore Café, followed by a…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I hope everyone enjoyed their leap second this weekend. Terrifying: Switzerland unveils the first open air double-decker cable car. Let’s take a look at the menus of every single US…
Today I Will Let You Have Your Saturday To Yourself
Friends, comrades, Rumpusers (Rumpusans? Rumpaloompas? Sorry), I am taking a mental health day today. However! I did write something about Sheila Heti’s new book for Slate this week that you…
“The Search for Decolonial Love”
In an extensive two–part Boston Review interview, Paula M.L. Moya talks with Junot Díaz about race and gender in his writing, emotional decolonization, and Monstro, his novel in progress. “There’s that…