‘I Am Interested in Collective Characters’: An Interview With Nanni Balestrini ‘I Am Interested in Collective Characters’: An Interview With Nanni Balestrini
The legendary Italian author speaks with Rachel Kushner.
Nov 17, 2016 / Q&A / Rachel Kushner
Film Noir at Gallop Park, On the Edge Film Noir at Gallop Park, On the Edge
of suburbia in flux behind one of the town’s, count ’em, two mega high schools. The sometimes-tended-to nature preserve where green & green slide crisp between brisk handshakes…
Nov 17, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Marcus Wicker
Puzzle No. 3416 Puzzle No. 3416
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. 1 Astonish an archery aficionado? (4,4) 5 Beetle to injure a butterfly’s head (6) 10 After inauguration, platform for hatre…
Nov 17, 2016 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Entering Death, Davy Crockett Remembers a Row of Georgian Trees Entering Death, Davy Crockett Remembers a Row of Georgian Trees
Here someone to talk to would be nice said no one under all these peaches, red and ancient, until each falls the slowest fall the cardinal’s ever witnessed as it cuts through dewy…
Nov 17, 2016 / Books & the Arts / William Brewer
Those Wondrous Powers Those Wondrous Powers
What Arrival offers is so valuable that you might almost choose to pretend that someone knew we were going to need this picture after Trump’s election.
Nov 17, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Criticism in the Twilight Criticism in the Twilight
What role can the critic play in today’s uncertain times?
Nov 16, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas Dames
Responsible Hedonists Responsible Hedonists
Emily Witt’s new book, Future Sex, captures the ways in which free love and countercultural experiments are no longer as liberating as they once seemed.
Nov 15, 2016 / Books & the Arts / J.C. Pan
10 Songs of Resistance 10 Songs of Resistance
Music can be both salve and inspiration easing collective pain and encouraging group resistance.
Nov 14, 2016 / Peter Rothberg
The Disillusionment of ‘Snowden’ The Disillusionment of ‘Snowden’
Oliver Stone has told the story of a man’s painful awakening from ignorance over and over again.
Nov 12, 2016 / Richard Beck
The Gods Never Left Us The Gods Never Left Us
The enchanted counterworld of the novelist Sjón.
Nov 11, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Charles Baxter