Where are the writers who work on the dock? Where are stevedores, the longshoremen? The pipe fitters? The electricians?” ...

This year, we asked our contributors, our readers, our current and former interns, and other friends of the Review for their ...

I’d been working at Balthazar for a few months when Debra pulled me aside to tell me they knew I’d lied on my resume. Was I ...

Monsieur Baba appeared out of a dusty white Toyota, which he was maneuvering with one hand. He was dressed in used dusty blue ...

December 8, 2025 – “On the historic day when he finally reaches Lhasa, his journal entry begins: 'Our first care was to ...

New books by Joe Brainard, Peter Handke, Tarpley Hitt, Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, Christian Schlegel, and Olga Tokarczuk.

In the latter half of my student days I chose for myself three Arab friends: a Palestinian, a Sudanese, and the third was a ...

In 1934, Columbia University moved its twenty-two miles of books to the newly built Butler Library. By means of a really long slide. Which actually looks less fun than it sounds, and was much too ...

May 25, 2016 – Our celebration of Glen Baxter proceeds apace. To mark the release of his new book Almost Completely Baxter: New and Selected Blurtings, we’re running two ...

October 26, 2012 – “TRUE!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”Daniel Horowitz takes on Poe’s classic 1843 tale of ...

January 22, 2013 – Today marks the sixtieth anniversary of the premiere of The Crucible. In this interview, Arthur Miller discusses the writing of the play, and the McCarthy ...

Happy endings are just about a question of the place where you choose to stop the story. In a life, there’s lots of moments when you could say, Stop right there.” ...