With a Cuban song in the heart
In 1961, with his parents and sister, a sixteen-year-old Iván [...]
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
The writer Hisham Matar has spent most of his adult [...]
The Dark Space Around It
We lived in one half of Sarah’s 150-year-old farmhouse. When [...]
Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited
Just when it seems that nothing further can be said [...]
Slight Exaggeration
In Slight Exaggeration, Adam Zagajewski, the most prominent living Polish [...]
Rumi’s Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love
Many would find it surprising that a thirteenth-century Sufi mystic [...]
How to Walk an Invisible Dog
Start with suitable footwear. A good walking shoe is best, [...]
Death of Art
In 1925 Viktor Shklovsky, the Russian writer, literary theorist, political [...]
South and West: From a Notebook
In times of exceptional social and political stress, we turn [...]
Secret Histories: On Shirley Jackson
On June 27, 1948, Shirley Jackson published “The Lottery” in [...]