Literature

Mark Twain gamely opens Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with a warning to readers: “Persons attempting to find a motive in...

January 9, 2023, 11:53am Remember Ray’s Occult Books, the rundown Manhattan bookstore opened by an unmoored Ray Stantz between Ghostbusters I...

Each X-ray Erases Me a Little More Another X-ray Any chance you might be pregnant? When was the last time...

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This talk was delivered at the 2019 Edinburgh International Book Festival. One of the longest biographies of recent years, the...

What even is time? I had a couple conversations this past year, some of them surrounding the publication of my...

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January 6, 2023, 10:56am This week, at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Todd Field’s Tár was awarded Best...

I was in my twenties the first time I read a memoir set in Lahore, my father’s city, where I’d...

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“I raised four children, wrote five more novels—and finally got old enough to think about being young.” Allegra Goodman on...

Thou shalt not worship any other gods. But it’s totally fine to fangirl if you meet Margaret Atwood. And go...

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January 6, 2023, 12:02pm Because AI is apparently just like us, it seems to have romanticized the creative fields. So...

When I consider the memories that feel, in one way or another, like the definitive conclusion to a segmented period...