The author of What Belongs to You had to cut up his manuscript to make sense of it. “I wrote much of my second book, Cleanness, in a new life: I had published a novel; my partner and I had rented a house and moved in together; I had a dedicated writing room for the […]
A Death
“The fragments keep getting bigger,” he joked to a friend. “Maybe one day we’ll save a whole building.” – Barry Pearce
Annotating history
To be a Caribbean artist in diaspora is to simultaneously find home, belonging and artistic opportunities in a new place, even while knowing there is a “home home,” as Lisa Allen-Agostini recently termed it. Born in Jamaica twelve years apart before migrating to the U.S in the 2000s, visual and performance artist Cosmo Whyte and […]
Ten Books Chosen By Jon Robin Baitz
The playwright on his “Hollywood/male/monster-centric” reading list, and other books that are saving him.
Ten Books Chosen by George Saunders
The Award-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardot chooses a reading list to help him through the challenges of our times.
Interlocutor: Seen
“My words are worth a dollar
on Amazon if I put them there.”
– Tyler Mills
The Turnaround
“I know the standstill,
the mute glare”
– Joan Larkin
Against Perfection
After forging his artistic voice in Lisbon’s nascent avant-garde, Jorge Colombo has built a career as an acclaimed illustrator for The New Yorker, and the photographic bard of Narrowsburg
If I Grow Any Taller Will I Still Be Loved?
In his book Fascination, his memoir of gay life in 1970s Long Island, a leading proponent of the New Narrative movement recalls his coming-of-age in a “seedy, Burroughs kind of place.”
“Somewhere deep in the bowels of the ship, he lay dying in his wife’s arms.”
Translated into English for the first time, a new collection of 15 essays by Stefan Zweig reflects the writer’s range of enthusiasms and interests, including this lovely paean to Gustav Mahler.
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