September 22, 2025
- Why dictators are terrified of comedy
- Trump is suing Penguin Random House for $15 billion
- An interview with Sheila Heti
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Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary
Kathleen Collins
"She came in while I was recording and asked to listen to every Nina Simone album in the house. I was just about to introduce the next side: “How ’bout a little Herbie Hancock now, with George Coleman on tenor sax, Ron Carter on bass, Tony Williams on drums, and, of course, Herbie on piano . . . that’s right: ‘Maiden Voyage’ . . .”"
Karen Thompson Walker Talks Ishiguro, Saramago, and Hypochondria
In Conversation with Christopher Hermelin and Drew Broussard
on So Many Damn Books
Marlon James: One Day I Will Write About My Mother
"My mother, who spent most of her life building work and family, never built a room of her own."
On the Destabilizing Brilliance of Robert Coover’s “The Babysitter”
Or, How to Accept the Pain of Not Knowing
In the Face of Cancer, My One-Sided Deal With God
Julie Yip-Williams on Illness, Faith and Family
Director Peter Hedges on Taking the Page to the Screen
In Conversation with Will Schwalbe on But That's Another Story
The Man Who Couldn’t Die
Olga Slavnikova, Translated by Marian Schwartz
"It had been Marina’s idea. Keep Alexei Afanasievich from finding out about the changes in the outside world. Keep him in the same sunny yet frozen time when the unexpected stroke had cut him down. “Mama, his heart!” Marina had pleaded, having grasped instantly that, no matter how burdensome this recumbent body might be, it consumed far less than it contributed."
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
Anissa Gray
"I sit on the floor and rest my back against the bed. Glance down at my watch. Six thirty. Eva will be home from work any minute. No, this very minute. There’s the door."
Poet, Artist, Erotic Muse of Mexico’s Avant Garde: Rediscovering Nahui Olin
On the Life and Times of a True Iconoclast
Sam Lipsyte on Cults, Wellness and Cutting Through the Dumb Noise
The Author of Hark in Conversation with Annie DeWitt
The Art (or Non-Art) of the Cinematic Dictionary Open
The Definitions that Begin 13 Films and TV Shows
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