The Undead Travel
by Avi Davis
How an English Dracula revived the Romanian tourist industry.
A House Is a Machine to Live In
by J. C. Hallman
A fictional ship full of millionaires, a real ship full of millionaires, and the birth of the modern cruise industry.
In Pursuit of the Wild Cohiba
by G. Strand & J. Wallenstein
An American duo seeks out the ideal Cuban cigar experience while avoiding Fidelistas, the (other) Mets, and a shady cigar-selling dwarf.
Schema: Habitats of Regional Burger Chains
by Lincoln Michel
One-Page Book Reviews
Nina MacLaughlin on Laura Van Den Berg, Jessica Loudis on Juan Filloy, Stephen Burt on Liz Waldner,
Dominic Luxford on David Lau, and Jim Ruland on Matthew Simmons.
Guy Nordenson
interviewed by Scott Geiger
The structural engineer and disciple of Buckminster Fuller wants to build the Central Park of the twenty-first century-on water.
Musin's and Thinkin's: a monthly column
by Jack Pendarvis
Real Life Rock Top Ten
by Greil Marcus
My Alaska
by August Kleinzahler
Living in un-religious Alaska with a would-be carpenter, an un-Buddhalike Buddhist, and a guy named Sweetie.
Jonathan Ames
interviewed by Andre Perry
"There's some connection between your brain and sexuality and childhood and humiliation and power and self-loathing and affection."
Creative Accounting: Museum Exhibition
by M. Rebekah Otto
There Never Really Was a "We" or "Ours"
by Derek Walcott
Agnès Varda
interviewed by Sheila Heti
"The Grandmother of the Nouvelle Vague" at thirty, Varda now has more than thirty-five films-and several grandchildren-to her name.
Sedaratives
by Louis C. K.
