Ghost Songs
Regina McBride
“A particular memory preoccupies me. A theater party in Santa Fe. I don’t know many people and walk to the back patio, where, in the porch light, two young actors are reciting lines from Shakespeare. Turning and seeing me standing at the open French doors, one of them goes down on his knee and bows to me.”
The Jesus and Mary Chain’s Psychocandy
Paula Mejia
“Wielding an instrument onstage has the potential to elevate an ordinary person to the level of a deity.”
Whose Death Gets to Count, and For What?
On Racism, Gun Violence, and the Failures of the Official Narrative
Jonathan Lethem on Gambling, The American Left, and Formative Grief
"I’m forced to give you a glimpse of that deathly vacuum at the heart of my being"
Tessa Hadley, C. E. Morgan, and Jerry Pinto on the Future of Libraries
A Panel Discussion from the Windham-Campbell Prize Festival
The Radical Bookseller: We’re Talking About the Wrong Pussy
Why Donald Trump Really Needs to Meet Pussy Riot
Announcing the Next Event in the Red Ink Series: Writing About Depression
Michele Filgate talks to Margo Jefferson, Ruth Franklin, Elisa Albert, Morgan Parker and Bethanne Patrick
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Hakan Günday, translated by Zeynep Beler
“There’s no absolute way of knowing how people smuggling began. But if you take into account that it’s possible to undertake such a task with just three people, it’s possible to go way back in human history. The only rewarding line in an otherwise useless book I read years ago was: The first tool man used was another man. So I don’t suppose it was a very long time before somebody put a price on that earliest tool and sold it to others.”
How Fiction Treats the Elderly, Aging, and Ancient
Tobias Carroll on a Wide Rage of Novels Dealing with Old Age
Writing a Novel is Just Like Searching for Ecstasy in Cambodia
Patrick Hoffman on Doing Deep Research in the Cardamom Mountains
Joanna Kavenna, Champion of the Contemporary Philosophical Novel
Nicole Im in Conversation with the Author of A Field Guide to Reality
Indies Recommend: 10 Small Press Books You Should Read
Green Apple Bookstore Picks Its Favorite SPD Titles
How Patricia Highsmith’s Mr. Ripley Rises from Genre to Myth
James Lasdun on the Genius of a Mid-Century Classic
Five Books Making News This Week: Politics, Philosophy, and Opium
Juan Gabriel Vasquez, John Kaag, Frances Wilson, and More
Nobody’s Son
Mark Slouka
“In the summer of 1970, when I was twelve years old, my mother and father and I spent three months in a big wooden house on the shore of one of the Twin Lakes in the northwestern corner of Connecticut. My father, a professor of political science, had gotten a summer teaching gig at some institute of international something-or-other. It came with a house, so up we went.”
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