August 04, 2014
Before the publication of his dirty letters, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man revealed Joyce to be quite the kink.
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Before the publication of his dirty letters, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man revealed Joyce to be quite the kink.
Read MoreOn the anniversary of its publication, the final chapter of this Victorian classic continues to baffle.
Read MoreKeret’s new op-ed in The New Yorker resounds a very necessary call for writers to speak their minds.
Read MoreThough it may seem like the answer is yes, Emily Dickinson, Franz Kafka and John Kennedy Toole might disagree.
Read MoreIn celebration of Chandler’s birthday, we look back on “The Simple Art of Murder,” his seminal essay which broke the British stranglehold on detective fiction.
Read MoreHe looked deeply into her eyes, and she said, “You’re off the case.” Then everything went black. (Because it was all just a string of cliches.)
Read MoreOnce upon a time, it was was a dark and stormy night, and little did we know where all of these goddamn cliches came from.
Read MoreJack Kerouac, Samuel Beckett, Milan Kundera — the list of writers who worked outside their native tongues isn’t just impressive, it’s surprising.
Read MoreIt’s hard to nail down everything that’s wrong with Franco’s new short story, but we’re sure going to try.
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