While I could start by quoting Benjamin on Baudelaire, or make some sweeping — and likely very silly– statement about the status…
The cover of Lydia Davis’s new collection of (very) short stories is printed simply with an excerpt from the four-line titular story…
At first glance, Donna Tartt seems to be the anti-Bret Easton Ellis. The two were friends, and dated briefly, as undergraduates at…
In “Digital Witness,” the first single of St. Vincent’s latest album, Annie Clark laments over a throbbing array of guitars: “What’s the…
The usual rap on post-World War II city planners is that they ruined our cities with their highways and shopping malls, and…
Jonathan Franzen’s reception at Swarthmore last spring was lukewarm. He spoke fatalistically of the social impact of fiction and disavowed the readings…