03.20.2024 by Aaron Hicklin 03.20.2024 by Aaron Hicklin The Great Escape How Thomas Allen Crafts New Tales from Old Pulp
02.26.2024 by Aaron Hicklin 02.26.2024 by Aaron Hicklin When Lucy Sante left her “pathetic ex-husband.” Post-transition, the newly-confident author of Low Life has lost her hangdog expression but not her sharp, critical wit or shrewdness.
01.13.2024 by Joe Jackson 01.13.2024 by Joe Jackson Poor Things: the Scottish visionary whose book inspired Yorgos Lanthimos’s movie Like watching Lanthimos’s gorgeous spectacle, reading Gray is a wild and unsettling ride.
10.01.2023 by Aaron Hicklin 10.01.2023 by Aaron Hicklin It’s immoral to be apolitical "There is no mystery in the Russian soul; they want to suffer, they thrive on it, and they want us to suffer." - Victoria Amelina (1986-2023)
09.13.2023 by Aaron Hicklin 09.13.2023 by Aaron Hicklin Dacha Dreaming A new book celebrates Russia's Summer Fix for the Heat and Grime of City Life
09.03.2023 by Aaron Hicklin 09.03.2023 by Aaron Hicklin Russell Banks: Where I Write The late author, two-time Pulitzer-finalist, on his sugar shack in the Adirondack wilderness
05.19.2023 by Aaron Hicklin 05.19.2023 by Aaron Hicklin Youth, Interrupted Richard Haines' wistful portraits of young men capture his own traumatic history as a child of gay liberation who saw his friends vanquished by AIDS.
01.03.2023 by Aaron Hicklin 01.03.2023 by Aaron Hicklin Edmund White’s Year in Books "I thought I would do what we considered an ideal in the 1960s: Live hard, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse."
08.30.2022 by Nancy Princenthal 08.30.2022 by Nancy Princenthal An Artist of the Floating World A new exhibition and book pays tribute to Katherine Bradford’s heroic, rueful superwomen.
08.12.2022 by Aaron Hicklin 08.12.2022 by Aaron Hicklin Ottessa Moshfegh: Where I Write Behind the Birds of Paradise and bougainvillea a writer sits in bed... writing.
