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The Branson Pilgrim

Wherein the author spends a decade acquiring knowledge of country and/or western music, Elvis’s stillborn twin, Bidenomics in the wild, bathroom cruising, wax statuary, race relations, and the soul of the nation

End Notes

by Elias Canetti,Translated by Peter Filkins,

From entries in The Book Against Death that were published for the first time in English in the Fall 2021–Winter 2022 issue of Salmagundi. Canetti, who received the Nobel Prize…

Song of Despair

by Pablo Neruda,

From The Complete Memoirs, which was published last month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. In recent days, attacks on my ideas and my poetry have multiplied. Within and outside of…

Stages of Grief

by William Deresiewicz,

What the pandemic has done to the arts

Trash, Rock, Destroy

by Lauren Elkin,

Is Virginie Despentes the French writer America needs?

Ove and Out

by Christopher Beha,

Knausgaard’s struggle comes to an end

It’s All Over Now

by Amparo Dávila,

From “Tina Reyes,” which appears in The Houseguest and Other Stories. The book will be published next month by New Directions. Dávila was born in Mexico in 1928 and is…

Literary Customs

by Alejandro Zambra,

From Not to Read, which was published in the UK in April by Fitzcarraldo Editions. Zambra is the author of five novels, as well as short stories and poems. Translated…

Higher Yearning

by Flannery O’Connor,

From a journal that Flannery O’Connor (1925–64) kept during her second year at Georgia State College for Women. The journal entries were published in Issue 94 of Image Journal. Regina…

The Seven-Year Itch

by Patrick Leigh Fermor,

From a letter written by Patrick Leigh Fermor to Enrica Soma in 1961. Soma was a model and ballerina, and the wife of the director John Huston. Fermor was the…

Eric Duncan

by Philip Roth,

By Philip Roth, from remarks he gave at a celebration of his seventy-fifth birthday at Columbia University in 2008. They are included in Philip Roth: Why Write?, which will be published…