Siracusa
Delia Ephron
“Promised K I’d get out of it. Had every intention. Mornings I’d lean against the counter drinking coffee watching Lizzie make a smoothie. The speed with which she can do things in the kitchen used to dazzle me—tops popped on plastic containers, bits of banana, blueberries, whatever tossed into the blender. A handful of ice. The freezer kicked shut while she tipped in the soy. Masterful.”
Did I Write a Gay Book? An Indian Book? A Diverse Book?
Rumaan Alam on Figuring Out Where to Sit at the Table
I Squatted James Baldwin’s House in Order to Save It
Shannon Cain on Preserving a Literary Legend's Last Address
Ben Lerner on Why So Many People (Rightfully) Hate Poetry
In conversation with the MacArthur-Genius poet and novelist
Building a Better Definition of Science Fiction
Ann and Jeff VanderMeer on the History and Future of the Genre
“Why Not Use This Moment to Celebrate Writers of Color?”
Ben H. Winters on African-American Mystery Writers You Should Read
Brightfellow
Rikki Ducornet
“He is unlike other people. And the girl, too, unlike other people. Sometimes when he is crouching alone in the lilacs waiting for the moment to quicken, for the world to start over, it does. Suspended in the shadows, he sees her windows come to life and when this happens it is as if the first stars have caught fire and he is vividly alive, he embodies expectation, flush with longing for a look at the One Child, the One Girl: Asthma.”
I Found a Rare Copy of June Allison Gibbons’ Outsider Novel
On the Unusual Case of the Infamous "Silent Twins" and Their Literary Aspirations
Poetry is the Place for Joy: Or How We Praise the Mutilated World
On Ross Gay, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Alan Shapiro, and Paisley Rekdal
Starting Your Own Religion Is Actually Pretty Easy
Elizabeth Kelly Offers a Few Tips on Founding a Fictional Church
Nico Muhly on the Oddness of Deadlines, and the Power of Opera
In conversation with Paul Holdengraber
Catching Wild Bill and Jane: The End of a Killing Spree in Panama
On the Crimes of William Dathan Holbert and Laura Michelle Reese
“Fountain of Youth”
Patrick Ryan
“Here’s my morning routine (just to give you an idea of what my days are like now): I wake up at 6:15, as if I’ve still got a job. I go downstairs to the front stoop I share with five other units and hope somebody hasn’t filched my newspaper. I take the paper inside and sit at the dining room table, and while I drink a glass of orange juice with Metamucil and eat a piece of toast with marmalade, I read the news. Christ, it’s boring.”
In the Wilds of Utah, For Research
Alexandra Oliva on Killing the Meat You Eat, and Taking Comfort for Granted
What Happens When You Break Into America’s Nuclear Bomb Factory
On Hearing the Lord's Call to Turn Swords Into Ploughshares
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