In the latter half of my student days I chose for myself three Arab friends: a Palestinian, a Sudanese, and the third was a ...

December 8, 2025 – “On the historic day when he finally reaches Lhasa, his journal entry begins: 'Our first care was to ...

Monsieur Baba appeared out of a dusty white Toyota, which he was maneuvering with one hand. He was dressed in used dusty blue ...

New books by Joe Brainard, Peter Handke, Tarpley Hitt, Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, Christian Schlegel, and Olga Tokarczuk.

Imagine being blindfolded and loaded in a car, then dropped nearly four hundred miles from your house in a random field in ...

January 22, 2013 – Today marks the sixtieth anniversary of the premiere of The Crucible. In this interview, Arthur Miller discusses the writing of the play, and the McCarthy ...

In 1934, Columbia University moved its twenty-two miles of books to the newly built Butler Library. By means of a really long slide. Which actually looks less fun than it sounds, and was much too ...

Happy endings are just about a question of the place where you choose to stop the story. In a life, there’s lots of moments ...

Never in my life have I managed to be unhappy when there was a pool around. I’m a Scorpio, a water sign. It’s a miracle I’ve ...

This morning, before breakfast, I played nineteen games of Scrabble on my phone. I won thirteen. It took less than an hour. Over the past twenty-five years, I’ve played Scrabble every day, ...

The name of the book is a ruse. Camping on Low or No Dollars, the dingy cover page reads. An older edition bears a similarly anodyne title: From Birmingham to Wendover. Both are a misdirection, ...

March 9, 2022 – “Maroo pays attention to the small torments, affinities, and shifts in mood that are rarely expressed out loud.” ...