A Terrible Splendor
Fourth Set “I’m playing for my life”Tilden rose and stretched, decided to walk around the grounds for a few minutes. If he considered going to the locker room to see Gottfried… More
Marilyn Hacker: Selected Poems
Lines that grapple doubt, written because of the beloved :// when grief subsides, what survives the loss of the beloved ? More
An Interview with Don DeLillo
Sinclair Lewis called for 'a literature worthy of our vastness.' A novelist tends to feel this spread and breadth in his fingertips (or not) and I’ve tried to bring… More
Canyon Sam: Sky Train
Canyon Sam received a 2010 Open Book Award.At the beginning of my fifth week, I flew from Chengdu in western China to Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, a three-hour flight… More
An Oresteia
What are you waiting for? You have your / orders–strew the ground with fabrics, / now! / Make his path crimsoncovered! / purplepaved! redsaturated! More
Human Moments in WWIII
This is a human moment, and it reminds me that war, among other things, is a form of longing. More
Point Omega
I tormented myself over the running time, settling finally on a freakish fifty-seven-minute movie that was screened at a couple of documentary festivals. It could have been a hundred… More
Greed’s Prisoner
even the ashes don’t belong to you, his body / in the prison of the Communist Party / so that the spirit-cell you built / without a door without… More
Robert Lipsyte, Tim O?Brien, and Susan Orlean to Judge PEN/ESPN Award
PEN American Center, the largest branch of the world’s oldest literary and human rights organization, announced today that writers Robert Lipsyte, Tim O’Brien, and Susan Orlean will be the… More
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