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Paperback to the Future

By Vivian Gornick,

From Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader, a collection of essays published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The other day I was asked a question of fact…

Dangerous Minds

From titles of books and periodicals that are banned, or of which issues are banned, in Louisiana state prisons. Pinterest for BusinessSmart Moves Beyond Mutual FundsO, The Oprah MagazineThe Prada…

Like This or Die

By Christian Lorentzen,

Alex and Wendy love culture. It’s how they spend their free time. It’s what they talk about at dinner parties. When they go jogging or to the gym, they listen…

Like This or Die

By Harper’s Magazine, on March 25, 2019

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The Printed Word in Peril

By Will Self,

In February, at an event at the 92nd Street Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center in New York, while sharing the stage with my fellow British writer Martin Amis and discussing the…

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…

Flesh and Blood

By Vivian Gornick,

A formative experience of my life occurred the day — I was then twenty years old and a student at the City College of New York — that an English…

Apocalypse Always

By Walter Kirn,

As a teenager in the Mormon Church, I was led to believe I might live to see the world end — the fallen world of sin and imperfection, that is, which…

A Tumor (in English)

By Ed Atkins,

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By Thomas Allen,

Rule, Britannica

By John Crowley,

They look like a segment of Borges’s Library of Babel: twenty-four volumes almost uniform in bulk (a thousand pages each, give or take a few), identically bound in a reddish-brown…

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Paperback to the Future

Dangerous Minds

Like This or Die

Like This or Die

The Printed Word in Peril

Literary Customs

Flesh and Blood

Apocalypse Always

A Tumor (in English)

(Untitled)

Rule, Britannica

February 2016