Essays
And Then Something Terrible Happened: William Steig’s Children’s Books
The darkness and longing at the heart of William Steig’s picture books.
On “The Restoration of the Villa Where Tibor Kálmán Once Lived” by Tamas Dobozy
A story for our times.
The Pleasure and Nuisance of an Enduring Character
Why do we love Sherlock Holmes?
On “A Voice in the Night” by Steven Millhauser
On Millhauser’s radical forms.
Interviews
Peter Kispert
The author of I Know You Know Who I Am on his debut and self-betrayal and deception in the queer community.
Ashley Wurzbacher
The author of Happy Like This on her debut collection, the complexity of female friendships, and resisting gender narratives.
Danielle Lazarin
The author of Back Talk on debut collections, fury, and the high-low beauties of her native New York City.
Joshua Furst
The author of Short People and The Sabotage Cafe on child narrators, Shakespeare, and subversion.
Aravind Adiga
The Booker Prize-winner of The White Tiger on modern India, Neo-realism, and Ramin Bahrani’s films.
Marie Mutsuki Mockett
The author of Picking Bones from Ash on Japan, travel fiction, and advice for writers at the beginning of a career.
Jeffrey Rotter
The author of The Unknown Knowns on paranoia, comic books, and the mythical underwater kingdom of Nautika.