Get Shorties
The annual “Best American Short Stories” is once again at hand.
Robert Birnbaum
Eco Eco
Frequently a journalist’s crutch, lists are no deficit in the works of the exuberant Umberto Eco.
Is It Good for the Jews?
Taking exception to Israel’s homeland status.
Tobias Wolff
Our man in Boston talks to Tobias Wolff about the art of revision, how writing programs are good for training skilled readers, and why Robert Olen Butler still signs stock.
Robert Altman’s One Long Film
Brilliant director and raconteur Altman gets the biography he deserves.
Relentless Yawp
Where’s the fuss about the death of literary mags?
The Party Line
Number-one bestselling New York Times author Glenn Beck brandishes a new money rake.
Question, Questions, Questions?
Padgett Powell’s bebop solo of a book is 164 pages of interrogatory—that’s right, questions.
Police and Thieves
The N.Y.P.D.’s Joe Rizzo has a credo: “There’s no wrong, there’s no right, there just is.”
Waiting for the Electrician
Arundhati Roy’s essays about the failing light of democracy reach U.S. shores.