A marathon reading of a new translation of Beowulf by Maria Dahavana Headley presented over 25 days and featuring Alan Cumming, Bill T. Jones, Neil Gaiman, Justin Vivian Bond, Laurie Anderson, Ari Shapiro, Jeff VanderMeer, Sara Quin, Diane Cook, Brontez, and many more.
A Jan Morris Primer
The poet Eileen Myles, who selected Conundrum as one of her ten favorite books, wrote that “to read this great travel writer’s account of transition is to understand the word ‘journey’ truly.”
Scorpion Time
“My husband and I get into our own bed and lie face to sunburned face. What news do you have, we ask each other. What new things have you heard? Jordan has it, I say. Stephanie. Mark is sure he does but he can’t get tested.”
“The Mountaintop”
In truth, you still expect to order your life in peace; you continue to long for glamour and passion. To guard against the destinyyou don’t really know, you work furiously. Pensive and unathletic as you are, you haveyour own intricate schedule, with your shopping bags and appointments.You always forget you’re a bag of blood. In […]
“Lucky”
Ten Books Chosen by Maaza Mengiste
The Ethiopian novelist picks a lyrical novel in which the central character is a house, a biography of an iconic revolutionary, and a fictional exploration of the real-life trial and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
The design genius who made books sexy
By the early 1920s E. McKnight Kauffer was already so popular that a waiting billboard would trail his imminent arrival like a movie star: “A New McKnight Kauffer Poster Will Appear Here Shortly.”
The Beatles vs. The Fab Four
If there’s anything new to say about pop’s most celebrated band, Craig Brown has found it.
The Art of the Essay: Four Masters of the Form Discuss Their Craft
“The essay is alive; there is no reason to despair,” wrote Virginia Woolf. At the Deep Water Literary Fest in 2019, we gathered four essay writers to discuss how this statement still holds true. While the pandemic made it impossible to meet for a second iteration of the discussion this past year, we find solace by distilling the thoughts offered to us by Alexander Chee, Sloane Crosley, Laura Kipnis, and Luc Sante. This discussion was moderated by professor and poet Sandra Lim.
This Virginia Woolf Lecture on How to Read is Everything
It is simple enough to say that since books have classes – fiction, biography, poetry – we should separate them and take from each what it is right that each should give us. Yet few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, […]
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