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Yiyun Li on Sketches from a Hunter’s Album
You walk into Turgenev’s stories as into a dream that you have often had: the darkened faces of peasant women behind the fire, the hooves of the horses stirring… More
Phillip Lopate on What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920-1933
I can think of no book I’d rather exchange for the Gideon Bible than Joseph Roth’s What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920–1933. More
Jaime Manrique on Don Quixote
“Fame is a form of incomprehension, perhaps the worst,” wrote Jorge Luis Borges in “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote.” It should not be surprising, then, that the most… More
Bruce Ducker on Anna Karenina
From the time I read the book at age 19 I had been in love with the heroine. Caught in a loveless marriage with Karenin, bored by her life… More
PEN American Center Announces Recipients of the 2011 PEN Literary Awards
PEN American Center, the largest branch of the world’s oldest literary and human rights organization, today announced the winners and runners-up of the 2011 PEN Awards, the most comprehensive… More
For the City
For the City (2005). Light projection on Rockefeller Center. Photographed by Attilo Maranzano. For the City (2005). Light projection on the New York Public Library. Photographed by Attilo Maranzano.For the… More
Paul Kane on The Green Sea of Heaven
My designated book—though it’s too annotated and dog-eared to actually swap—is a translation by Elizabeth T. Gray Jr. of The Green Sea of Heaven, fifty ghazals by the Persian… More
Photocopies of Photocopies: On Bao Ninh
Bao Ninh, now living in Hanoi, became a novelist in the second half of his life. Until the age of forty, he served in the North Vietnamese Army, fighting… More
Wait, Blink
But: That’s not possible, her lecturer said. How do you expect the audience to see anything at all on a backlit screen? It’ll fade out the film and make… More
Working Day Notes: The Publishing Revolution is Here
Introduction by Joshua FurstWe’ll examine the current state of publishing and the massive changes it’s going through. The panel of publishers and authors will describe their experiences, and try… More
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