Max is a displaced Virginian who finds himself living in Princeton, NJ with his wife and their "child," a Bernese Mountain Dog named Calvin. The Shenandoah Valley is where his heart lies, and he finds
When James Baldwin’s famous account of America’s race crisis, The Fire Next Time
, was first published in 1963, the critic Frederick Wilcox Dupee penned a review
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When short forms are everywhere, from Facebook to Twitter, everyone fancies
themselves a minor poet. Social media has provided the form, and now the content
of poetry skews towards a celebration of the
Ilya, a Soviet dissident living in mid-twentieth century Russia, seeks out his
former teacher, Victor Yulievich, at his home in Moscow. Needing encouragement
for dark times, Ilya hopes for a conversation that will
A young Michael Clune sits in front of his family’s television long after the
jumbled noise of the VCR tape has stopped, absorbed in a primordial void of
static, waiting for something.
In the introduction to Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, a
transcript of a five-day-long interview with late writer David Foster Wallace,
David Lipsky describes his book as “the one way
