Talking From the Grave
Roberto Bolaño may not have the last word, but here at least is his Final Interview.
Robert Birnbaum
Room With a View
Simon Mawer’s Booker-shortlisted novel The Glass Room could easily be banal. It is not.
Strunk & White Exposed
A readable history of that essential primer, “The Elements of Style.”
People Talk
First came “A People’s History of the United States.” Now Zinn is making history again.
Texas Noir
Attica Locke’s first novel is an auspicious debut. They don’t get much better than this.
You Say Potato, I Say Tuber
What to do when a writer you admire disdains a book by an author you esteem?
Oh, Canada?
Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman was detained at the Canadian border. What does this mean?
Pop Goes the Warhol
New works devoted to Andy Warhol suggest some people get more than 15 minutes of fame.
Pretty Boys
Is photographer Greg Gorman a modern Horst or Hurrell? A new monograph addresses the question.
A Good Best
An annual anthology of online literature ushers in a brave new world.