Diorama of Love
Love is wherever love is felt, and with love being a complete statement, well, that’s enough.
Love is wherever love is felt, and with love being a complete statement, well, that’s enough.
I tried to compete with my rivals by spending money.
Granddad had apparently taken the bus quite a distance and walked very far that day, to reach a certain apartment building.
He may have been patiently waiting, for the longest time, for me to show up in front of him, she thought. Like an enormous spider waiting for its prey in the dark.
In “Long Island Compromise,” wealth is a curse. Or is that just what we’d like to think?
“Picnic season!”
In town for a Dia Beacon installation, the visual artist and “12 Years a Slave” director commuted five hours each day and expounded on the virtues of doing stuff instead of thinking about doing stuff.
The composer and saxophonist tours what remains of the clubs and run-down apartments (now delis and clothing stores) of the downtown scene of the seventies.
“Along the Pojoaque, cottonwoods form a swerving river of gold.”
Keeping it cool while keeping cool.
The Alitos toast to Independence Day.
“If to dust we return / And we do / Why spend a minute / Choosing wallpaper.”
Give now to get your name on the wing of a fighter jet!
You could read his literary output in a single day, yet it includes almost all there is to know about what the English language can do.
I felt that I was being tied to the women in my family, those who had come before and those yet to come.
The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discusses “Every Night for a Thousand Years,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1997.
A week of conversations with figures of note.
An indispensable part of the ceremony, of course, was the Civil War veteran, and at the time I’m telling about we still had one—a Confederate, naturally.
Looking over at her, he starts to smile again—revising, she thinks, the presumption of failure.
The author discusses his story “Kaho.”
“Consent,” by Jill Ciment, and “Change,” by Édouard Louis, revisit the past with an eye for distortion and error.
I promised myself that I would not write memoir again; it was too strenuous, too costly, too harmful, no matter how cathartic it might be.
The author discusses her story “Opening Theory.”
A conversation with Bruce Weber, the author of a biography in progress of E. L. Doctorow.