FULL TEXT The Sentence Is a Lonely Place by Gary Lutz What is it that gives every line — in certain works of fiction — the force and feel of a climax?
On the Eve of Destruction by Alena Graedon Fallout shelters are are just outmoded relics of a bygone Cold War paranoia. (Right?)
A Certain Kind of Murder by Theo Schell-Lambert How an unusually dark 1961 novel dissolved the laws of youth fiction and turned hundreds of Pennsylvania ten-year olds into adults.
Notes on the Meltdown by Joshua Clover The bailout is a credit bubble with nothing to buy: $700 billion to stave off the collapse of our current system by inflating it one more time.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie interviewed by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro The author of
Purple Hibiscus and
Half of a Yellow Sun rescues the historical novel from tight dresses and Renaissance Florence.
FULL TEXT Tom Dumm interviewed by Jill Stauffer A political philosopher describes how misguided American ideas of self-reliance make for an incredibly lonely society.
Gordon Lish interviewed by John Lee and Vernon Chatman The legendary editor of Raymond Carver, Amy Hempel, and others exchanges a series of deranged postcards with two of his friends.
Robert Alter interviewed by Rich Cohen The greatest translator of biblical literature in modern times describes the greatest poetry that survives from the ancient world.
