Amerikas by Adam Thirlwell Understanding the possibilities of translation through a miniature history of the novel.
The Military-Toy-Industrial Complex by Jason Boog G.I. Joe purified the army for a new generation, scrubbing away the shame of Vietnam.
Hunting the Windy Vapors by Rachel Poliquin The stomach is a cauldron that cooks foods in a half-fermented sauce—and other eighteenth-century theories of digestion.
Elizabeth Bishop in correspondence with Robert Lowell Bishop’s letters and postcards to Lowell, selected from the poets’ voluminous correspondence.
Bruce Jay Friedman interviewed by Amy Sohn The novelist (
Stern) and screenwriter (
Splash) describes the care with which a ten-dollar-a-page check from the
Antioch Review must be spent.
Will Eno interviewed by Patricia Mulgraw “I grew up in Waslala, Nicaragua, the favorite daughter of a beloved mayor. We had a burro named Gil.”
FULL TEXT Nico Muhly interviewed by Sean Michaels The twenty-six-year-old composer and Philip Glass protégé has lately been arranging songs using comments on YouTube.
Diane Williams interviewed by Kevin Sampsell “To try to reproduce something I understand would be a big bore.”
