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Several Attempts at Understanding Percival Everett
I knew from the dozens of other interviews I had read with him that Everett doesn’t love doing press. “I wonder why?” he joked to me.
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Kate Briggs Isn’t Trying to Be Original
"I’ve never been interested in making a claim to originality."
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In Alexandra Tanner’s ‘Worry,’ Illness Is the Status Quo
In a novel where sisterhood entails constant conflict, illness provides an unexpected emotional salve.
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The Other Boy and the Heron
The heron has a robust mythological history across many cultures, and while the meanings differ, many deal with death, rebirth, and transformation.
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Álvaro Enrigue Won’t Romanticize Mexican History
"'You Dreamed of Empires' is at open war with the romantic representations of the Mexican past."
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Yomi Adegoke Contains Multitudes
People struggle to hold multiple ideas in their heads at once, and so attempt to pigeonhole female writers, but I am very comfortable leaning into duality.
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The Virtue of Slow Writers
The slow writer embraces the protracted and unpredictable timeline, seeing it not as fraught or frustrating but an opportunity for openness and discovery.
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Xochitl Gonzalez Wants to Reframe Art History
"The only reason I was interested in the story was to give Ana Mendieta agency."
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Dan Sinykin on Fiction, Scholarship, and Academic Twitter
"Academic Twitter is something of a compulsion for me. My wife hates it."
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At Long Last, a Translation Worthy of ‘Pedro Páramo’
The latest translation of 'Pedro Páramo' is a mystifying work, in the dual sense that it is confounding and that its language possesses an almost mystical quality.
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Tennis Lessons from David Foster Wallace
I was, and still am, the most reviled type of tennis player.
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“She Pierces the World”: Olga Ravn on Doris Lessing
"She's pissed off. I guess that's why a lot of people don't want to read her. But it gives a book intensity."
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Old Lesbian Love
The sexual objectification of the body, of our bodies, is less an insult these days and more of a goal.
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The French Cartoonist
Who Limned New York City
"While Paris is gray-blue, New York is very, very colorful."
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The Path Is No Path: On Not Becoming a Poet
What makes a poet a poet? There is of course no simple answer. You could argue that self-declaration is enough. You could also argue there must be a measure.
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How English Took Over the World
English has become not just the “language of Europe”—it has become the dominant lingua franca of the world.
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