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Telling Stories about the Stories We Tell
An interview with Philip Gourevitch on Rwanda, the dangers of narrative simplification, and the limits of humanitarianism.
From the Editors: September/October 2012
“Every night and every morn / Some to misery are born. / Every morn and every night / Some are born to sweet delight. / Some are born to sweet delight, / Some are born to endless night.”
The Allen Files
Midnight in Paris earned Woody Allen his fourth Oscar and was the biggest box office success in his long and productive filmmaking career.
Founding Fathers, Founding Villains
As soon as there was a Constitution, fights about its meaning began.
Thomas Goes Riding the Silver Sunset
Your seatmate from Heathrow to Copenhagen is a beautiful young Estonian woman who, thankfully, is talkative.
Poet’s Sampler: Stefanie Wortman
Outside of reading (or rereading) Oliver Twist, we don’t typically receive or intend the word “artful” positively.
Microreviews: Dean Young, The Art of Recklessness
Dean Young’s first book of criticism is a frenetic and subversive meditation on poetry and poetics seemingly inspired by Whitman’s exhortation to “unscrew the locks from the doors! / Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!"
Microreviews: Christopher DeWeese, The Black Forest
This debut collection is packed with personae the way a forest is packed with trees.
Microreviews: Amaranth Borsuk, Handiwork
Winner of the 2011 Slope Editions Book Prize.
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