August 4 – 8, 2025
- Writing James Baldwin’s life as a love story
- Advice for pitching translations in a bleak market
- Roy Scranton considers life in a perpetual apocalypse
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Are Human Genes Changing As Fast As Culture and Technology?
On the Rise of Epigenetics in the Anthropocene
The Joy and Terror of Translating James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room
Elena Marcu on Bringing an American Classic to Romania
Whiskey When We’re Dry
John Larison
"I heard it said God moves on the water. Well, I have looked for Him there. My thirst grows with his flood. Our kin homesteaded where desert met lake. "
The Devoted
Blair Hurley
"She was seventeen; it was early spring. The ground was thawing beneath her and groaned at night, changing shape. That was the year that the scandal broke wide and the church closings began."
Claire Tomalin on Hiring (and Dating) a Young Martin Amis
"I Knew Martin Could Take Over My Job Easily and Do it Very Well"
The Poet Who Survived Stalin’s Poems
The Tale of Arsenii Tarkovsky and the Translation He Couldn't Refuse
Ralph Ellison: Coming of Age During the Rise of the KKK
Black Life in Oklahoma City, Between the Wars
First They Came for the Poets
Erri De Luca on the Importance of Independent Journalism in the 21st Century
The 60 Best and Worst International Covers of Lolita
On the 60th Anniversary of its American Publication
The Time I Went Fishing with Barry Hannah
William Giraldi in Praise of the "Rebel of the English Language"
A 14-Year-Old Girl, A Genderqueer Performance Artist, and One of New York’s Most Unlikely Friendships
Fernanda Eberstadt Remembers the Late Stephen Varble
From Chester Himes to Judy Blume, 10 Writers and Their Cats
In Which Marlon James is Photobombed by Tom the Cat
Making the Case for the Surreal Memoir
Pushing the Limits of Form, from Leonora Carrington to Wendy C. Ortiz
Kimiko Hahn: Writing Poetry Between Science and Dreams
The Author of Brood in Conversation with Peter Mishler
Red, White, Blue
Lea Carpenter
"There’s terrorism and there’s long-term strategic interests. Some might say fighting terrorists is a clearer game, with a more immediately identifiable set of risks and rewards. Others will argue espionage in essence is about the long-range, about understanding enemies operating on a different clock."
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