What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?
“We is an escape hatch. We is cheap. We is a way of simultaneously sloughing off personal responsibility and taking on the mantle of easy authority.”
Skiffle Craze: An Interview with Billy Bragg
On the Paris Review, Alex Abramovich talks with Billy Bragg about skiffle, the history of music, and duck jokes.
Walter Mosley, The Art of Fiction No. 234
A prolific writer of fifty-four diverse books, and widely known for his Easy Rawlins crime series, Walter Mosley talks with The Paris Review about race, creativity, the book publishing industry, the confines of genre and his three decades depicting Black American life.
A Number of Reasons I’ve Been Depressed Lately
In this day and age, this is a pretty short list.
The Feminine Heroic
Megan Mayhew Bergman explores how women, often excluded from adventure narratives, carve out their own heroic space.
Like Art
Making art is hard. For some people, it isn’t hard deciding to make art for commercial purposes.
Protectors
Do you own your pet, or does your pet own you? This deceptively simple piece of short fiction explores fertility and fragility, and the ways we fail to protect those we love.
Collector’s Item: What was the Princess Diana Beanie Baby?
Planning to finance your retirement with your Beanie Baby collection? Think again.
The Craft of Poetry: A Semester with Allen Ginsberg
An intimate recollection of a Beat legend.
Islands in the Stream
The Bee Gees were pop music geniuses whose work in 1978 “accounted for 2 percent of the entire record industry’s profits.” Yet they were still underappreciated—and also still capable of making ill-conceived creative decisions.