New York Trance — Geoff Dyer and the Life of the Writer
In Dyer's repetitions and leitmotifs, we get the sense of watching a mind traveling between planes of existence....
Bali Diary: At the 2015 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival
A visit to the 2015 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali....
A Strange Mind: An Interview with Orhan Pamuk
The novel is about modern city life, and the characters may be poor, but they are very modern. Their problem is adjusting to the individuality of the city....
Here Be Dragons: On Literary Cartography
Andrew DeGraff's "Plotted: A Literary Atlas" is a book of maps based on great works of literature....
All Is Permitted, All Over Again: Oliver Ready’s Translation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”
Oliver Ready's translation of Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" shows what reactionary work it was....
The Ground Beneath His Feet
Veteran Rushdie readers will find in his most recent novel, "Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights," familiar hallmarks of his imagination....
Superheroes in a Time of Terror: Rushdie’s 1001 Nights
Comic books, climate change, and caliphates in Salman Rushdie's "Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights."...
Postcards from the Threshold
Joy Williams's stories, especially when read collectively, challenge the plausible and demand a reader's participation, a leap of faith....
Vladimir Nabokov, American Vagabond
Vladimir Nabokov wasn’t born in the USA — and that made his take on America important....
The Past Is Useless
Not only in interviews but in the novels themselves, Knausgaard has proven his own best critic....
Find this, Americans, and get it into your bones
— The Dying Grass and other Dreams of William T. Vollmann...
Manifold Destiny
Vollmann wishes for a release from ahistoricism that deprives Americans of the perspective needed to grapple capably with problems arising in the present....
