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Biography

Why I write

by Barry Hannah,

Goodbye very much

by Benjamin Taylor,

The many lives of Muriel Spark

Use your disillusion

by Nicholas Fraser,

Arthur Koestler in the age of extremes

Writers block

by L.M. Lazarev,Translated by K.A. Lantz,

A Kink in His Crock

by William H. Gass,

Norway’s Nobel Nazi

Flatfoot agonistes

by Edward Conlon,

Inside the police-entertainment complex

Garçon!

From an October 27, 2009, statement by the Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers, based in Bangkok. In a 2005 book, The Bad Life, French Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand wrote…

Nobody’s Detroit

by Philip Levine,

One Notion: Individual

by Kim Phillips-Fein,

Two lives of Ayn Rand

Masquerades

by Fernando Pessoa,Translated by Richard Zenith,

From a selection of posthumously discovered prose pieces published, for the first time in English, in the October issue of Poetry Magazine. By the time of his death in 1935,…

About Motorcycles

by Frederick Seidel,

My father was a hunchback. He had an accident on his bicycle when he was a child, which ended with his falling into a coal cellar, a fall of thirty…