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Arts And Culture

Anatomy Of A Gaucho

Grace Byron is a critic, reporter, and novelist based in Queens. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Bookforum, and elsewhere. Her debut novel Herculine is out now.

Grace Byron

The Gentle Parenting Of Ben Lerner’s ‘Transcription’

Nicholas Russell is a writer from Las Vegas.

Nicholas Russell

Interviews

Namwali Serpell On Understanding Toni Morrison The Author, Not The Icon

Jonah Walters

Stephen Fishbach’s Reality-TV Novel Is More Reality TV Than Novel

Barry Petchesky

WRITER DAN SIMMONS PUBLISHES 'FIRES OF EDEN'

Defector Reads A Book

Dan Simmons Is Dead, So It’s Time To Read ‘Hyperion’

<a href="https://twitter.com/petesegall?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Pete Segall</a> lives in Chicago. His fiction has appeared in The Bennington Review, Conjunctions, The Drift, and elsewhere.

Pete Segall

A collage featuring three of the different paperback covers for "Cleo Birdwell"'s 1980 novel Amazons.

Don DeLillo’s Funniest Novel Is A 1980 Hockey Sex Romp He Won’t Acknowledge

Patrick Redford

PARIS, FRANCE - MAY 11: Yoko Tawada, Japanese writer poses during portrait session held on May 11, 2006 in Paris, France. (Photo by Ulf Andersen/Getty Images)

Yoko Tawada Is A Genius In Any Language

Erin Somers is the author of the novel The Ten Year Affair.

Erin Somers

Talking To A. Natasha Joukovsky About Men, Myths, And March Madness

Columnist. Author of many <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Drew-Magary/e/B001JS8R52/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1">fine works of literature</a>, including Point B. Handsomest man in the world.

Drew Magary

Life Lessons

Confessions Of A Bookanizer

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Sabrina Imbler

a screenshot of an email exchange with "Elena Ferrante", which contains six back-and-forth emails out of an exchange of 12

Books

Anatomy Of A Gaucho

The Gentle Parenting Of Ben Lerner’s ‘Transcription’

Namwali Serpell On Understanding Toni Morrison The Author, Not The Icon

Stephen Fishbach’s Reality-TV Novel Is More Reality TV Than Novel

Dan Simmons Is Dead, So It’s Time To Read ‘Hyperion’

Don DeLillo’s Funniest Novel Is A 1980 Hockey Sex Romp He Won’t Acknowledge

Yoko Tawada Is A Genius In Any Language

Talking To A. Natasha Joukovsky About Men, Myths, And March Madness

Confessions Of A Bookanizer

What I Learned From My Annoyingly Long Correspondence With “Elena Ferrante”

Defector Wuthers Some Heights

Where Is Cinema?: An Interview With A.S. Hamrah

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