The Blue Line
Ingrid Betancourt
"She must have been five years old the first time it happened. She was living in Colonia del Sacramento, in Uruguay, in an old house behind the port, overlooking the estuary."
Williams Gibson: On Technophobia and the Power of Film
The Second Part of Paul Holdengraber's conversation with William Gibson
One of the Great Unsung Crime Novels of the 20th Century
Barry Gifford on the Long Wait for Elliott Chaze’s Black Wings Has My Angel
Five Books Making News: Magic, Murder, and Ghosts
Kirstin Valdez Quade, Samantha Hunt, Wendell Berry, Abby Geni, David Searcy
The Deep Sea Diver’s Syndrome
Serge Brussolo, translated by Edward Gauvin
“Getting in had been accomplished with extraordinary consistency—no loss of control—and in his delight, he passed up a glance at his depth gauge. The pill had made his mouth pasty and numbed the underside of his tongue. To double-check action of the drug, he slammed the big key on a showcase full of necklaces.”
Cheats, Liars, and Madmen: “New York Values” and Other Lines
The Sixth Republican Debate: A Spinglish-English Translation
Interview with a Bookstore: Kramerbooks & Afterwords
In Which a Bookstore Compares Itself to a Hyena
The Happy Marriage
Tahar Ben Jelloun, trans. André Naffis-Sahely
"By the mid-1980s, the painter still hadn’t put down roots anywhere. He never kept the same studio for more than a few months, traveled without any luggage, and most of the time he’d been happy to work with only a notebook and pencils for his sketches."
Four Personality Types That Will Derail Your Literary Event
Or, Some Highly Subjective Advice on What Makes for a Good Panel
The Nest
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
"As the rest of the guests wandered the deck of the beach club under an early-evening mid-summer sky, taking pinched, appraising sips of their cocktails to gauge if the bartenders were using the top-shelf stuff and balancing tiny crab cakes on paper napkins while saying appropriate things about how they’d really lucked out with the weather because the humidity would be back tomorrow, or murmuring inappropriate things about the bride’s too-tight satin dress, wondering if the spilling cleavage was due to bad tailoring or poor taste (a look as their own daughters might say) or an unexpected weight gain, winking and making tired jokes about exchanging toasters for diapers, Leo Plumb left his cousin’s wedding with one of the waitresses."
Under the Harrow
Flynn Berry
"A woman is missing in the East Riding. She vanished from Hedon, near the village where we grew up. When Rachel learns of the disappearance, she’ll think it’s him."
Page 1692 of 1756
