Noah Feldman on What James Madison Would Think of Contemporary America
The Author of The Three Lives of James Madison in Conversation with Andrew Keen
You Want to Know What Plays Are Like?
Raphael Bob-Waksberg
"Here is my impression of a play: Okay, so first you gotta imagine it’s a hotel room, right? Just a normal, boring-looking hotel room, on the nice end of things, as far as hotel rooms go. And the audience is coming in, and they’re taking their seats in this dinky little theater in lower Manhattan, barely bigger than a Winnebago, this theater, with seats that feel like someone just glued down some thin fabric over a block of hard metal. The main thing of a theater—like the whole point of it—is that there’s going to be a lot of sitting in it, so you’d think they would at least consider investing in some comfortable chairs. Word to the wise: if they can’t even get that part right, which absolutely most of the time they cannot, then buckle the fuck up, because I can tell you right now you are in for an ordeal of an evening."
On the Syrian Border, 2015, After the Story’s “Gone Elsewhere”
Elliot Ackerman Visits a Refugee Camp Near Tel Abyad
Sex, Violence, and Jerry Lewis: Aleksandar Hemon on the Preoccupations of His 10-Year-Old Self
"Inside that nothing there are memories, and inside those memories there are snakes."
How the West is Destroying Itself Through Its Fear of Migrants
Suketu Mehta on the Origins of Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric
What the 39,933 Items on Peter Matthiessen’s Computer Mean for the Art of Biography
On the Uncertain Future Histories of Our Digital Selves
In Pablo Picasso’s Studio During the Nazi Occupation of Paris
Françoise Gilot Recalls Her Life with the Artist
Podcasting Pro-Tips and Jonny Diamond on Creating Lit Hub Radio
With Whitney Terrell, V.V. Ganeshananthan, and Other Podcast Hosts on Fiction/Non/Fiction
Why France Bizot Uses Books as the Canvas for Her Art
On Defamiliarizing What We Think of as Art Materials
10 Books to Give to Dads Who Don’t Read*
*And also dads who do read, and also to non-dads. Books are great.
Literary Disco’s Summer
Reading 2k19!
Tod Goldberg and Rider Strong Share Their Summer Reading Lists
The Ditch
Herman Koch
"I was born in this city. Amsterdam, of course, is not a real city, except in the eyes of people from outside. We, the ones who were born here, immediately recognize the provincial from the way he moves, the way he walks, the way he holds his head. The man from the provinces who thinks he’s ended up in a real city. He walks as though he were in Paris or Rome. He admires his reflection in the store windows and congratulates himself on his decision to exchange his provincial life for a stay in this city, which is not a real city at all."
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