The Late Work of Sam Shepard
When Sam Shepard died in July, it became a cultural [...]
Coincidence
I’m driving into the high desert east of El Paso. [...]
A Disappearance in Damascus: Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War
A Disappearance in Damascus, the second book from Canadian cultural [...]
On Empson
“Literary critics do not currently live, as many have supposed, [...]
Into the Rafters
It’s an iconic football image: the aftermath of a devastating [...]
The Book of Emma Reyes
The Book of Emma Reyes found its translator, Daniel Alarcón, [...]
Down and Dirty: Translations of Catullus
Once upon a time in a state far, far away—Indiana—a [...]
Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire
In June 1959, Elizabeth Hardwick wrote to Allen Tate about [...]
With a Cuban song in the heart
In 1961, with his parents and sister, a sixteen-year-old Iván [...]
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
The writer Hisham Matar has spent most of his adult [...]