July 01, 2013
The Caine Prize for African Writing is back, and we're discussing what makes the five finalists tick. This week’s entry: Chinelo Okparanta's "America."
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The Caine Prize for African Writing is back, and we're discussing what makes the five finalists tick. This week’s entry: Chinelo Okparanta's "America."
Read MoreEqual parts Mayor Joe Quimby and Larry the Cable Guy, George Plunkitt’s speeches are hilarious, sad and, at times, beguiling.
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Does Joss Whedon’s take on Much Ado About Nothing appeal to Shakespeare buffs or just Buffy buffs?
Read MoreThe long lines and colorful glow of the James Turrell exhibit — not as magical as some reviews promised.
Read MoreAre the scandalous must-reads of yesteryear still worth the space in your beach bag?
Read MoreA take on an imagined dragon boom in the modern world with lots of fire, destruction, cattle-snatching and singing — what, you didn’t know dragons could sing?
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The Caine Prize for African Writing is back and, as we did last year, we’ll be joining Aaron Bady’s community to discuss what makes the five finalists tick. This week’s entry comes from Nigeria: Elnathan John’s “Bayan Layi.”
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A series in which we write poems from the most impassioned of online voices. Here, a free verse poem (there is no more appropriate format) comprised of the most poetic tidbits culled from from reviewers of McDonald's establishments in major U.S. cities.
Read MoreOut in paperback this week, The Guardians is Sarah Manguso’s elegy for a friend who eloped from a psychiatric ward and jumped in front of a Metro-North train. As her book joins the slim ranks of literature mourning the loss of a platonic friend, we follow the cadences of her grief with four stanzas from Tennyson’s masterwork of that genre, “In Memoriam A.H.H.”
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