Books & Fiction
The Transformative Experience of Writing for “Sense8”
In working on a TV show, I discovered the pleasure of temporarily losing my intellectual sovereignty
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Ben Marcus on How to Honor a Catastrophe.
The author discusses “Blueprints for St. Louis,” his short story in this week’s issue of the magazine.
A History of My Mexico City Home, in Earthquakes
Living on the Plaza Río de Janeiro, I experienced for the first time what it is to be house-proud. But pride blinds you to flaws.
“Sometimes People Write Poetry with Their Feet”: A Conversation with Tamim Al-Barghouti
“I remember as young as four or five, I thought that if I could speak in standard Arabic I would be physically able to fly.”
Notes on a Lifetime of Passing
Thanks to my parents transplanting me often from one ethnic mix to another, I’ve become something of a code-switching connoisseur.
Fiction & Poetry
“Blueprints for St. Louis”
“They’d been friends once, before they’d got into designing memorials for unspeakable catastrophes.”
“As You Would Have Told It to Me (Sort Of) If We Had Known Each Other Before You Died”
“Eight months later I died in a moped accident in Portugal. One week later I was resurrected in Stockholm.”
Spotlight
The Austere Fiction of Fleur Jaeggy
Her work sees little point in exploring happiness, productivity, or self-understanding. Her focus is the void.
Lillian Ross in The New Yorker
Ross, who died at the age of ninety-nine, once said that the finest reporters are “truth tellers.” Her work exemplified that standard.
A Novelist’s Powerful Response to the Refugee Crisis
In Jenny Erpenbeck’s masterly “Go, Went, Gone,” a retired academic befriends asylum-seekers in Berlin.
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Literary Lives
Visible Man
While the literary world awaited a second novel from Ralph Ellison, his early work became the forefront of black intellectual debate.