“It says here to burn the rich and take their shit”: An interview with poet Michael Robbins
While I could start by quoting Benjamin on Baudelaire, or make some sweeping — and likely very silly– statement about
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Literary one-liners: in Lydia Davis’s new collection, brevity is the soul of wit
The cover of Lydia Davis’s new collection of (very) short stories is printed simply with an excerpt from the four-line
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A tale of two time periods
At first glance, Donna Tartt seems to be the anti-Bret Easton Ellis. The two were friends, and dated briefly, as
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Book review: 24/7
In “Digital Witness,” the first single of St. Vincent’s latest album, Annie Clark laments over a throbbing array of guitars:
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Book review: Planning Philadelphia
The usual rap on post-World War II city planners is that they ruined our cities with their highways and shopping
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Book review: The Franzen project
Jonathan Franzen’s reception at Swarthmore last spring was lukewarm. He spoke fatalistically of the social impact of fiction and disavowed
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