FROM OUR ARCHIVES: “We believed that music is nothing but organized noise. You can take anything—street sounds, us talking, whatever you want—and make it music by organizing it.
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I quit believing in god a long time ago. But every so often a wish to see Dad again rises in the form of prayer.
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The climate crisis will make what we today call ‘the refugee crisis’ look nothing short of idyllic by comparison.
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I first met Carl by a fire in the woods. He was stoned from sucking a lung, I was nervous and despairing of the late hour. The flames rippled like ...
If you’re a young Western guy or even girl, respecting a few rules means you can have the most fun-filled time of your life. For those looking for something more ...
Discovering a literary paradise in Iceland.
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Unearthing the pioneer women of the emigrant trails .
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Down and out in an airport in Amsterdam.
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How social media is changing the modern novel.
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Ben Crystal shares exclusive fragments from his rehearsal diaries on playing Hamlet, and considers where Shakespeare might be headed next…
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Litro goes to Rocinha, Brazil with Bruce Douglas, to interview Major Priscilla Azevedo.
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The critic Tzvetan Todorov once suggested that the trick to writing a successful detective story was being sure not to innovate. The great genre work is that which best and ...
I am not interested in art but I am interested in sex, so after I first learned of Currin in a New Yorker profile in January, 2008, his name and ...
It was 3:30 in the afternoon sometime in 2010 and I was just about to leave for Heathrow Terminal 5—virtually my second home—to catch a flight to Mozambique when my ...
“You want to know why they call me Sugar Daddy?” A slender Chinese man with a pinstripe fedora angled on his head sidles up to Miranda and me, and a ...
Amboy is a place in the Mojave desert, about 200 miles east of Los Angeles. I hesitate to call it a town: undoubtedly that’s what it used to be, and ...
The Worst Ever Broadway Play
An immediate and sensational flop, Moose Murders by Arthur Bicknell is now widely considered to bethe worst play ever performed on ...
When Rio won the 2016 Olympics it was as if the whole city pinched itself. Euphoric crowds sang and danced on the beach while, on the big screen above their ...
January 23, 2010—Dany Laferrière is in Haiti for the literary festival Etonnants Voyageurs. Like so many others, he is caught in the earthquake. Unlike many, he escapes the catastrophe unscathed. ...
I grew up duck hunting. Which I never really liked because you had to wake up at some obscene hour, wade through a freezing swamp and sit in a dark ...
