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Song of Despair

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…

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Stages of Grief

What the pandemic has done to the arts

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Trash, Rock, Destroy

Is Virginie Des­pentes the French writer America needs?

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Ove and Out

Knausgaard’s struggle comes to an end

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It’s All Over Now

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…

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Literary Customs

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…

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Higher Yearning

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…

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The Seven-Year Itch

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…

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Eric Duncan

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…

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