“I am always there,” Mrs. Nabokov said of her husband’s writing, “but well hidden”.
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Run-On One-Liners: James Wolcott’s Lucking Out
The Vanity Fair critic recounts his decade with the Village Voice, watching movies with Pauline Kael and watching Lou Reed get caught trying to record the band Television at CBGBs.
“Minding the Sensitivities”
A Heart-Shaped World: Miranda July’s No One Belongs Here More Than You
In her short story collection, the author knows that we long for love far more than we ever have love, even when it’s laying right beside us.
Martin Amis’ House of Meetings
The narrator of Amis’ latest novel is both a victim and a perpetrator, a soldier in the Soviet “army of rapists” and later a prisoner in the gulag system.
“Dorky Pleasures”
“The Waning of Superficiality in the Pronouncement of a Favorite Alley”
Poetry
“The Ether of Ambition”
Fiction
“My Memory and Our Respective Hands and How They Relate To ‘Hand’s Across Ohio'”
Poetry
Muddled Brilliance
Finding the significance in Martin Amis’ latest novel, Yellow Dog