“’Words are the only victors,’ Rushdie wrote in his last novel, ‘Victory City.'”
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Days of the Jackal
How Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business.
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How to Exclaim!
The exclamation point attracts enormous (and undue) amounts of flak for its unabashed claim to presence in the name of emotion which some unkind souls interpret as egotistical attention-seeking.”
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
There Is No Other Way To Say This
“Tell them on the outside,” Carolyn Forché’s Salvadoran mentor instructed her. Her memoir is her latest attempt. Its elliptical lyricism, like that of her poetry, runs circles around censorship.
Posted inBusiness, Business & Tech, Current Events, Media, Story, Uncategorized
Inauthentic Behavior
Facebook’s botched war against propaganda campaigns.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
O, Small-bany! Part 2: Winter
Notes from an awful winter.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Judging Books By Their Covers
Jason Diamond analyzes his obsession with Vintage Contemporaries paperbacks from the 80s.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Judging Books By Their Covers
Jason Diamond analyzes his obsession with Vintage Contemporaries paperbacks from the 80s.
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The author of The Satanic Verses on the fatwa issued against him in 1989 by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini. “The Disappeared.” — Salman Rushdie, New Yorker More New Yorker
