The Last Rant: On Ai Weiwei
An archive of one of China's most lively dissenting broadcasts.
An archive of one of China's most lively dissenting broadcasts.
On buildings, plots, and mourning at Ground Zero.
On José Parlá and Mark Bradford, two archivists of urban ruins.
So it is with memoir; the facts take a backseat to the truth of memory, to the quality of feeling.
On Barney Rosset and the history of Grove Press
On the architectural legacy of World War II.
The shadow of the culture wars falls over these books, and Jane Austen becomes both the rescued and the rescuer.
Searching for a political meaning in the London "shopping riots."
IN ALEXANDRA FULLER'S CLASSIC MEMOIR Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, the author used all her formidable humor, love, persistence, and maybe a...
ALL OF BERYL BAINBRIDGE'S characters are refugees from the past. They arrive on the pages of her books either shot from a cannon with a mission or...
I HAVE LEAD AN INTENSE LIFE,” Dan Fante writes in his author’s note. “For the sake of brevity I have not included every marriage, girlfriend, arrest...
Not to mention that if you have to call a thing "True," it’s probably not.
I kept thinking: what a wonderfully capacious and labile medium poetry provides!
RATHER THAN AN INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDE for the bewildered employee, Georges Perec's The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise is a map down a rabbit hole...
He is both a post-national and post-postmodern writer on the one hand and quite simply a page-turner on the other.
On the art of curating comics.