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What It Is
Lynda Barry is the queen of hermits. A Wisconsin neo-Buddha, she lives on a remote farm with a wood-burning stove and only her husband around for company. Who better, then, to talk artists out of s...
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
For acclaimed Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, the act of running and the act of writing are inextricably linked — like two sides of the same track-shaped Möbius strip. As his new memoir, What I ...
How Fiction Works
James Wood is one of today's pre-eminent literary critics. In How Fiction Works, however, the New Yorker writer and Harvard professor is anything but a critic, instead presenting himself as a humbl...
Lawrence Weiner: AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE
The endpapers of Lawrence Weiner: AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE depict a pair of workmen lowering a manhole cover into place on a rain-soaked city street. But this is no ordinary piece of civic hardwar...
Fanon: A Novel
In the opening pages of his latest novel, John Edgar Wideman directly addresses writer and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon (1925–1961), whose brief life took him from Martinique and the crucible of Frenc...
Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway
Joyce Carol Oates posed as Emily Dickinson in the 1995 Halloween issue of the New York Times Magazine. No doubt, many an English teacher clipped the image, but, unsurprisingly, the contemporary aut...
The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal
New York is a city of transplants, immigrants and Americans alike, who arrive with hopes of fame and success. Once cleaved from the connective tissue of family heritage, however, these transplants ...
Book Review
Jay Pridmore's architectural survey of Shanghai unfolds like the lotus on the Westin Bund Center's crown. Beginning at the Bund in the city's center,, the book meanders across the Huangpu River to ...