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In Gabrovo

By Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915–2011), from The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos, to be published in March by New York Review Books. Edited by Colin Thubron…

The Boys on the Block

by Gordon Lish,

My personal memoir

Chicago Is the Future

by Thomas Frank,

It was in 1988 that I moved to the bedraggled neighborhood of Hyde Park in order to study American history at the University of Chicago. I left the city ten…

The View from 86

by Malcolm Cowley,

By Malcolm Cowley, from a December 20, 1984, letter to Peter Braestrup, editor of Wilson Quarterly. Best known for his literary criticism, Cowley died in 1989. The Long Voyage: Selected…

I Wept for Four Years and When I Stopped I Was Blind

by Siri Hustvedt,

By Siri Hustvedt, from a keynote lecture delivered in Paris at this year’s winter meeting of the Société de Neurophysiologie, to be published in a special issue of Clinical Neurophysiology,…

Loving Las Vegas

by Colson Whitehead,

What the prudes get wrong about Sin City

The Man Who Saves You from Yourself

by Nathaniel Rich,

Going undercover with a cult infiltrator

Is Paris Bathing?

From 112 Gripes About the French, a 1945 handbook for American soldiers in occupied France, edited and republished this month by the Bodleian Library.

Untitled

by Horace Nicholls,

A Very Perfect Instrument

by Andrew Cockburn,

The ferocity and failure of America’s sanctions apparatus

A Different Kind of Father

by Jonathan Franzen,

By Jonathan Franzen, from a footnote to his translation of “Nestroy and Posterity,” a 1912 essay by the Austrian satirist, playwright, poet, aphorist, and critic Karl Kraus (1874–1936). In the…

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