A sense of stagnation and stillness when what I want is for the book to open, open, open into something expansive and true.
For some months—since I was told about this award—I have been trying to find the point in my life when this fiction stuff and ...
The Plaza is a case study in the lengths to which New York’s leaders have gone to find gargantuan sums of money to enact wild ...
For our Art of the Libretto series, I spoke to the playwright and librettist Nilo Cruz, who wrote the words to the composer ...
One purpose of these studies is to be loosened from my scholarly superego (which isn’t very strong, in any case).” ...
Distressed by what he saw happening to Latin American journalism, Gabriel García Márquez, the Nobel laureate author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and a former newspaper reporter himself, started in ...
When Alex Pretti was shot ten times in South Minneapolis on a cold but sunny Saturday morning in front of a doughnut shop, I was likely three or four miles away, speeding down I-94 to make it to the ...
Investigations of a Dog and Other Creatures, a collection of Michael Hofmann’s new translations of Kafka stories, is out next month.