Autumn Has Always Been Poets’ Season
Nietzsche, Emerson, and the Eternal Return of the Falling Leaves
How the Oldest Stories Can Give Us the Best Perspective
On War, Troy, and the Slow Time of Classic Literature
War, Censorship and Friendship: A Tale Told Through Old Propaganda
An Excerpt From Anouck Durand's Award-Winning Photo Novel
Uncertain Glory
Joan Sales, trans. Peter Bush
“When I got up, life seemed worth living again. Only because I have a little corner of this earth all to myself”
North Station
Bae Suah, trans. Deborah Smith
“I liked to talk about dreams. For lovers, Freud was a gypsy of romance and sensual desire, part fortune-teller, part lute-carrying poet, and the manufacturer of a wonder drug. ”
The Dirty Secret of War: It Can Be As Compelling As It Is Ugly
Philip Caputo on the Literature of War
At Oslo’s House of Literature, a Free Space for Ideas (and Writers)
How Can We Make This Kind of Thing Happen in America?
When the French Invaded Hanoi, My Brothers Stayed Behind
They Knew War was Coming and Were Eager to Fight
When Maya Lin Got a B+ Despite Winning the Vietnam Memorial Design
The Architecture Wunderkind Had a Difficult Relationship with Her Professor
On Borders, White Space, and Saying the Unsayable
"A Poem’s Virtue is in its Lament Against Powerlessness"
Peter Coyote: Voice of the Vietnam Generation
Clara Bingham Asks a Counterculture Legend About Narrating a Hard History
The Interview that Became Henry Kissinger’s “Most Disastrous Decision”
How Oriana Fallaci Became the Most Feared Political Interviewer in the World
Jia Tolentino and Claire Vaye Watkins Talk Abuse, Harassment,
and Harvey Weinstein
fiction/non/fiction: The Week's News Through Fiction, Essays, and More
Jennifer Egan Makes Friends Across Seven Decades (and Countless Letters)
The Author of Manhattan Beach on the Intimacy of Historical Research
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