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New York Noir: From the Graphic Adaptation of Paul Auster’s <em>New York Trilogy</em>

New York Noir: From the Graphic Adaptation of Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy

Mystery, Murder and an Existential Search For Meaning and Purpose

By Paul Auster | April 9, 2025

Paul Auster: Why Is America the Most Violent Country in the Western World?

Paul Auster: Why Is America the Most Violent Country in the Western World?

On the Normalization of Gun Culture in the United States

By Paul Auster | January 18, 2023

Paul Auster on One of the Most Astonishing War Stories in American Literature

Paul Auster on One of the Most Astonishing War Stories in American Literature

Considering the Dark Horrors of Stephen Crane’s “An Episode of War”

By Paul Auster | November 1, 2021

"Scribe"

A Poem by Paul Auster

By Paul Auster | April 28, 2020

The Wolves of Stanislav: An Improbably True Parable for the Pandemic Age

The Wolves of Stanislav: An Improbably True Parable for the Pandemic Age

Paul Auster Travels the Borderlands of Far Eastern Europe

By Paul Auster | April 2, 2020

Paul Auster on the Time He Met Samuel Beckett

Paul Auster on the Time He Met Samuel Beckett

"One remark speaks to the dilemma all writers must live with: eternal doubt, the inability to judge the worth of what one has created."

By Paul Auster | June 27, 2019

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