JAMES ELLROY is the author of 13 novels, each grander in scale than the last. Perhaps best known for “L.A.…
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Literary Magazines: Read all about it
SHORT literary fiction and critical essays are the publishing world’s equivalent of weapons-grade plutonium. Dense, highly refined, and for all…
Nobody Wins
PULITZER prizes are better known for honoring American journalism than fiction. Their heft in literary circles is far outweighed by…
Diabolical women
“THE Vanishers” is basically a novel of “girl-on-girl psychic violence,” says Heidi Julavits of her new book. The story begins…
The Q&A: Tom McCarthy
TOM MCCARTHY’S 2005 debut, “Remainder”, managed what the jackets of so many first novels promise: a fresh and—in this case—unsettling…
CAN YOU REALLY RANK WRITING PROGRAMMES?
Right now, in faculty rooms across the country, admissions officials are trying to winnow out the next batch of Masters…
WHITNEY BIENNIAL: THE LIST
The Whitney Biennial is something of a coming-out party for mostly young and mostly unknown contemporary artists working in America.…
Highline Bandit
A BANDIT ON THE HIGH LINE The High Line park, recently converted from an elevated train track that snaked through…