Selling Sex in Honeymoon Heaven by GINGER STRAND
Inside the twin makeovers of Niagara Falls and the American feminine ideal
Stuff I’ve Been Reading by NICK HORNBY
Nutrition Is a Force Multiplier by ROLAND THOMPSON
A monthly column about food in Iraq
Lost in Canada by EILEEN MYLES
A lyrical elegy for a four-hundred-page Mead composition notebook, moldering in a giant room full of other lost notebooks
Ghost Stories for the Very Adult by LELAND DE LA DURANTAYE
How a brilliant art historian amassed one of the strangest libraries in the world in between trips to the Wild West and the sanitarium
Sedaratives by MARTHA PLIMPTON
Carrying a Balance: a new poem by TROY JOLLIMORE
Advisory: a new poem by TROY JOLLIMORE
The Brain and the Tomb by AVI DAVIS
Reading the nearly unreadable, instantly baffling, and endlessly complicated Archimedes Palimpsest
Schema: Photos of TV by MIKE SACKS
One-Page Reviews
Matthew Simmons on Lydia Millet, Robert Arellano on Havana noir, Lara Tupper on Pat Barker,
Christopher Byrd on Jenny Erpenbeck, and Alan Gilbert on Victor Segalen
Charles Burns interviewed by HILLARY CHUTE
Our brilliant cover artist reveals the genesis of his inimitable drawing style, his chronic genre abuse, and his forthcoming perversion of Hergé.
Lydia Davis interviewed by SARAH MANGUSO
“I don’t believe, in the end, that there is any such thing as no style.”
Linda Thompson interviewed by PETER TERZIAN
The English folk-rock legend on spasmodic dysphonia, Nick Drake, musical children, gossipy mythmaking, and Richard Thompson
