Home Fiction The Celebration of My Birth Matar, Rain-Blessed Son of Raqqa: Saved by the Wife Tradition Forced Upon Him read more Jean Baptiste Vérany’s Forgotten Legacy Essay Me, My Sister, and I Writer and New York playwright Matthew Gasda examines the lifelong dynamics between siblings shaped by art, illness, and inheritance. Diary Fire Island Pines, Labor Day Weekend, 1979 The Ice Palace at 4:30 AM on a Saturday night should be fossilized, to be discovered in 500 or 1000 years. How will they ever assess our culture, the pure sensation of it? – Philip Gefter Fiction August This man was unbearable, but because he was the first person to be sufficiently violent with me during sex, I let it go on longer than I should. – Anika Jade Levy Conversations What's an Autodidact? Douglas A. Martin and Lauren Elkin speak with Jason McBride about his new book, Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker. Conversations The Wyrd Ones Writer Robert Macfarlane and actor and musician Johnny Flynn on getting Lost in the Cedar Wood Fiction The King In this 1921 story by Isaac Babel, a “king” of gangsters is informed of an imminent police raid as he prepares to host a Jewish wedding feast. Fiction Michael’s Marriages “Her smile felt stale. Her tongue was orange. Her favorite soft drink was Fanta.” – Myles Zavelo Required Reading Ten Books: Nathan Englander The moral cartographer maps his influences—from Gogol’s absurdity to Robinson’s grace. Poetry Reasoning with Love “When I heard your voice / it didn’t crack open my chest / at first.” -David Adger Fiction NOT YET “This was no one’s crime scene but my own.” Conversations The pleasures of identity “In a better world, [Edmund White] would have been a professor in Gay Studies” – Blake Smith and Tae-ho Kim in conversation read more Children’s Author of the Month: Wanda Gag Millions of Cats, the oldest American picture book still in print, was the brainchild of Minnesotan artist Wanda Gag. Although she died young, her legacy survives in her beautifully-illustrated books for children.
