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Lynne Tillman’s American Genius, a Comedy follows a woman over the course of a day during her stay in an artist’s retreat. The woman doesn’t use the term “artist’s retreat”, but she does call the ...

The Jesus and Mary Chain’s feedback-laden, garage-rock-indebted sound was the second most talked-about element of the Scottish indie band in their early years; the first was the crowd violence that ...

“I beg you to send me immediately the remaining Vols:”, Henry Fielding wrote to Samuel Richardson in October 1748. Fielding was requesting the final volumes of Clarissa; or, The History of a Young ...

Gboyega Odubanjo’s Adam is a series of impossible elegies. The poems respond to the recovery from the River Thames in 2001 of the torso of a Black boy, named Adam by police officers. The unknown child ...

For the foreseeable future, any discussion of democracy in the media seems destined to be preoccupied with its very survival. The women writing this collection do not seek to define what democracy is, ...

Recipes can take many forms, from detailed sets of instructions to simple lists. Stuck to my refrigerator is a carefully laminated card containing my sister-in-law’s guide (in French) to making ...

“People ought to be one of two things, young or old. No; what’s the good of fooling? People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.” Dorothy Parker has the fortune to be remembered as young – as ...