With a little bit of nostalgia in thoughts, I lately examined the profession of architectural critic Reyner Banham, an Englishman whose love for Los Angeles oddly knew no bounds. I’m making ready an extended piece that may bridge his historic assessments of town with a few of the harsher realities of our period. Certainly, Banham’s […]

Welcome to At the moment in Books, our every day round-up of literary headlines on the intersection of politics, tradition, media, and extra. What Are the Most Recommendable Books of the Century So Far? In the event you’re round Portland, OR, be part of us for a dwell E book Riot Podcast occasion discussing probably […]

“I preferred doubt.” Kamel Daoud (Photograph: Claude Truong-Ngoc, Wikimedia Commons) In Albert’s Camus’ 1942 The Stranger, a French transport clerk named Meursault shoots an Arab man on the Mediterranean seaside. Algerian creator Kamel Daoud retells Camus’ well-known story from the perspective of the useless man’s household: “My brother’s identify was Musa. He had a reputation. However he’ll stay ‘the Arab’ perpetually.”  […]

Welcome to Literary Hub’s inaugural Ides of March Insanity bracket:The Greatest Villains in Literature. Article continues after commercial Everybody loves an excellent villain—at the least once they’re safely fictional—however which literary villains are the finest? And which one deserves the title of the Best Literary Villain Of All Time? We want your assist to determine. […]

Quickly We’ll All Be Doomscrolling on Mars Swan Fucker Did she placed on his information along with his energyEarlier than the detached beak may let her drop?— W B Yeats, “Leda and the Swan”Going deaf from the clamor of too many dooms,balancing life like an egg on a spoon,dreaming of a beautiful, baleful wave:liquid obsidian. […]

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What does a lady in midlife need? The opening scene of Susan Minot’s new novel, “Don’t Be a Stranger,” hazards a solution. Ivy—a author, early fifties, divorced, devoted mom of a younger son—is alone in her West Village condominium, soaking within the tub, when the doorbell rings. She wraps herself in a towel and pads […]

Kwame Dawes courtesy of Blue Flower Arts “It’s evident,” writes Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto, “that the mix of Kwame Dawes’s bicontinental heritage and love for his father and household has bestowed an elegiac temperament upon his work.” The next essay meditates on the son’s elegiac negotiations going down in Dawes’s work.   I: Dying and Concern Kwame Dawes […]

Hey there, I’m the chiropractor you discovered closely discounted on Groupon. I do know you got here in to align your ankles, however I really feel far more of a thrill when coping with the human neck. Might I? Okay, so I’m noticing you tensed up a bit after I violently rotated your neck 180 […]

From Claudia Maintain’s portfolio, Interiors, in challenge no. 246 of The Paris Evaluate. What secret needs and resentments are tucked contained in the individuals we love? A bit of lady’s diary, with its tiny lock and key, testifies to the impulse to maintain components of ourselves hidden, however it’s inconceivable to have a look at […]