fiction

Desaliento

"We were at the nude beach one cloudy afternoon when he was thinking it all over out loud. I was topless and Diego was completely on display, which, looking back, should have been awkward for us, but it wasn’t."
Patricia Engel

The Last Time I Saw Junior

"I imagined what I'd like to do to him, and everything I imagined I'd do made blood. I mean real blood. I'd made blood happen in the past. Not gun blood, not bullets, not knife wounds. I wasn't a killer. But broken teeth, yes, absolutely."
Dagoberto Gilb

Mugger and Mouse Get Married

"Mugger and Mouse get married on a cool day in June. The war is over, but there are rumors of another."
Michael Agresta

A Baby Is A Baby Is A Baby

"Had someone caught on early and agreed to do away with him before his fingernails and toenails grew..."
Matthew Stuart

The Cynic

"If you listen to those who are wise..."
Charles Johnson

The Art of Dying

"Mona Skye, the duelist and poet of lately tragic fame, lay where her friends had placed her: on brocade cushions in a corner of the smoking room beneath the Amber Tree café."
K.J. Bishop

Barbarians' Fantasies

"The film crew hadn't been down long before my girlfriend Lenka started sleeping with Russell Crowe's driver."
Peter Mountford

In Rut

"Days before, a wildfire to the east turned the sliver of moon hazy blood-orange."
Madeline Kotowicz

Siblings

"I came into this world in parts, jumbled together with my brother"
Yvonne Woon

The Dance

"The gymnasium flickers with strobe lights, the DJ plays one rap song about butts after another, and my twin sister is looking really weird as she dances."
Jennie Berner

archive

Revolutionary Road

Read Stewart O'Nan's 1999 article which renewed public interest in Richard Yates's literary career. The film version of Revolutionary Road is due out later this year.

essays

We Laughed, We Cried

Flann O'Brien's Triumph
Roger Boylan

The Mirror

Imagining justice in Palestine
Elias Khoury

Justify the Enemy

Becoming human in South Africa
Zakes Mda

The Monarch of All

The fantasy world of John Cowper Powys
Roger Boylan

For Love and Money

Ha Jin's A Free Life
Mythili G. Rao

Out of Exile

Notes on Bulgarian Literature
Dimiter Kenarov

A Fiendish Mood

The mid-century novels of "the other Elizabeth Taylor"
Neel Mukherjee

Something For Myself

Haruki Murakami's strange world of hope
Catalina Holguí

Lastingness

Nicholas Delbanco

Nabokov's Legacy

Roger Boylan

Whole Sight

On artistic passion
Charles Johnson

Brazil's Dreamer

Pop star and novelist Chico Buarque
Scott Saul

Found in Translation

César Aira's How I Became a Nun and Roberto Bolaño's Amulet
Aura Estrada

Metamorphosis

Rosamond Purcell's natural history
John Crowley

Homeland

On the new generation of Nigerian novelists
Andrée Greene

Paradise Lost

The novels of Sarah Waters
Jan Clausen