May 27, 2014
The Paris Review, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and government-sponsored kool-aid acid tests — American spooks are so cultured.
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The Paris Review, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and government-sponsored kool-aid acid tests — American spooks are so cultured.
Read MoreIn celebration of what would be John Cheever’s 102nd birthday, we’re sharing five free reads that flaunt what he was known for: the short story.
Read MoreLorrie Moore, David Foster Wallace, Junot Diaz — if only we could mix and match our favorite authors to create the world’s best curriculum!
Read MoreCelebrate Moz’s birthday the way he would: sulking in a corner over a good book.
Read MoreCrime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, The Brothers Karamazov — basically everything by Dostoyevsky has been made into a movie more than once.
Read MoreThe Great Gatsby, Mrs. Dalloway, This is How You Lose Her — a movement on college campuses hopes to mark such works as possibly traumatic.
Read MoreJonathan Lethem, Jamaica Kincaid and F. Scott Fitzgerald all prove that there’s more than one road to success.
Read MoreDavid Foster Wallace’s Kenyon commencement speech is amazing, but Susan Sontag, Toni Morrison and Nora Ephron can do just as well (if not better).
Read MoreOn the 51st anniversary of James Baldwin’s famous TIME cover, we explore the magazine’s relationship with the Great American Novelist archetype.
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