Double Vision

George Orwell

Enter a sentence of Elizabeth Bishop’s

Revision and craft

A Kink in His Crock

Norway’s Nobel Nazi

Kinds of Killing

The flourishing evil of the Third Reich

Go forth and falsify

Katherine Anne Porter and the lies of art

The master’s voice

Henry James's curriculum vitae

Unsteady as she goes

Malcolm Lowry's cinema inferno

Half a man, half a metaphor

The unknown Kafka

A forest of bamboo

The trouble with Nietzsche

La vie treshorrificque

The infinite’s jest

Stanley Elkin imagines the life after life

On evil

The ragged core of a sweet apple

The Apocalypse Museum

In defense of the book

On the enduring pleasures of paper, type, page, and ink

Shears of the censor

Notes on excision, imprisonment, and silence

The art of self

Autobiography in an age of narcissism

Sweet things

Vicissitudes of the avant-garde

In search of a worthy "no"

On thinking through a little problem

Goodness knows nothing of beauty. On the distance between morality and art

A visit with Yevtushenko

The face of the city

Reading consciousness in its tics and wrinkles

The unspeakable state of soliloquy

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