Essays
October 25, 2011
Celebrating St. Crispin’s Day 3
by Guy Patrick Cunningham
We need more literary holidays. For what it’s worth, I want to claim today (October 25) for readers. Who’s with me?
October 24, 2011
The End of the End of the Frontier 3
by Jim Santel
Americans don’t really look for Mexico in Mexico — they look for a more perfect America, at once free of materialism and more conducive to it.
October 17, 2011
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Write ‘The Marriage Plot’ 23
by Jeffrey Eugenides
The irony was clear: here I was, cheating on a novel that had once been my mistress!
October 14, 2011
Getting Out: Escaping with Joan Didion 4
by S.J. Culver
I came home one oppressive afternoon and found two men drunk on Listerine passed out on the front lawn. I saw someone on the bus using needle-nosed pliers to remove his nostril hair. Minneapolis hadn’t changed, but the ugliness had become all I saw of the city.
October 13, 2011
The Gay Question: Death in Venice, By Nightfall, and The Art of Fielding 18
by Matthew Gallaway
Is it possible for an otherwise straight man to be struck by a bolt of gay lightning and next scene end up declaring his undying love to a beautiful young Adonis?
October 11, 2011
Bartleby’s Occupation of Wall Street 38
by Hannah Gersen
If Occupy Wall Street has any goal, it should be to have the same effect that great literature has — to unsettle.
