Books
Olivia Kate Cerrone tells this story in raw, blunt terms, in a naturalistic mode worthy of Zola.
A journal that is part travelogue, part music history, and part meditation on the evolution of our culture through the often-bloodshot eyes of one man.
Roxane Gay is a bold writer of impressive range who experiments with magic realism, dystopia, and fantasy.
A historian’s view of the tumultuous world of early sixteenth century Europe, an age of exploration, revolt, and religious upheaval.
Eva Maze drops names and paints a heady picture of the high life, but she does so with the disarming charm that permeates most of her memoir.
May this superb biography, The Invention of Angela Carter, spark more interest in this amazing writer, especially in the United States.
Jeffrey Sweet has provided a handy oral history of the ways playwriting has changed over three generations.
The imperative to engage with landscape, and thus leave or at least minimize the self, has become of great importance to Peter Handke.
A beautiful, if somewhat meandering, series of vignettes on the writer’s lifelong relationship with cigarettes.
Mark Lilla argues that the creed of the reactionary mind can be just as radical (and disturbing) as any revolutionary ideology.
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