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Editor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction

Judging Books By Their Covers

by Jason Diamond October 20, 2017October 19, 2022

Jason Diamond analyzes his obsession with Vintage Contemporaries paperbacks from the 80s.

Books, Nonfiction, Quotes

Robert Caro on Understanding a President Through the Rooms He Occupied

by heymarkarms February 3, 2017October 19, 2022

There are facts in journalism, but there are other truths hidden in the room. In this 2016 Paris Review interview with James Santel, Robert Caro, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson, gives a masterclass on how to report on a subject’s behavior, his environment, his breath, and the cushiness […]

Nonfiction, Quotes

Haruki Murakami on the Weirdness of His Birthday as a Public Event

by juliawick January 12, 2016October 19, 2022

In the introduction to “Birthday Stories,” a 2004 anthology edited by Haruki Murakami, Murakami writes about the particular weirdness of having his birthday become a public event.

Books, Profiles & Interviews, Story

The Story of Memory: An Interview with Paula Hawkins

by Cody Delistraty May 2, 2017October 19, 2022

Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on The Train and Into the Water, reflects on two unreliable things: narrators and memory.

Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women

‘See What Y’All Can Work Out’: The State of Empathy in Charleston

by Alison Kinney January 3, 2017October 19, 2022

Charleston’s—and our nation’s—systemic racism, through the lens of the Dylann Roof trial.

Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women

‘See What Y’All Can Work Out’: The State of Empathy in Charleston

by Alison Kinney January 3, 2017October 19, 2022

Charleston’s—and our nation’s—systemic racism, through the lens of the Dylann Roof trial.

Nonfiction, Quotes

Elena Ferrante on the Historic Struggle of Women Writers

by A. N. Devers April 6, 2015October 19, 2022

INTERVIEWER Do you think female fiction is constitutionally weak? FERRANTE Not at all. I’m talking about my adolescent anxieties. For obvious historical reasons, women’s writing has a less dense and varied tradition than male writing, but it has extremely high points and also an extraordinary foundational value—just think of Jane Austen. The twentieth century, besides, […]