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Mum’s Boy
... as his unrepentant anti-Semitism. As for his mother Eva, Andrew Motion’s 1993 biography of Larkin describes her as “indispensable but infuriating,” like some grating housemaid. Larkin himself...
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Bari Weiss and Andrew Sullivan resign; The TRiiBE editor-in-chief Tiffany Walden on the danger of sensationalist narratives
... Andrew Sullivan is resigning from New York magazine. Bari Weiss has resigned
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In Andrew Martin’s fiction, dissatisfaction reigns supreme
... In Andrew Martin’s new story collection, we’re with the critics, who are also writers, who often don’t write anything at all. Like Derek, who peaks hate-skimming a novel by the sometime...
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Aaron Robertson on the People’s Townhall on the future of publishing; When will Obama’s next memoir come out?
...-and-imprints-nbsp> that champion writing by and for people of color; or to give concrete career advice and a rolodex of contacts to our interns; or to provide curious young writers with first-hand...
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They Meant Well
... now called American liberal centrism remade much of the world in its own image and turned the US into the preeminent military and economic power. Today, centrists’ best idea for a bold, young...
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For Interpretation
... announcing his appointment as Sontag’s biographer (Rieff and Andrew Wylie, Sontag’s agent, had approached him about the project). “It’s hard to think of a writer’s life that ranged as widely.” Or to think...
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The Revolution of Everyday Life
... threatens to over-deliver. The novel’s striking cover art depicts a mass of bodies in tilted motion against a bright red background, and its narrative tells of a group of young adults who get unwittingly...
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Kevin Killian (1952–2019)
... the ones that follow, have been showing up online all week, all of them pointing to Killian’s incredible presence. I’m one of the many hundred (thousand?) of young writers and poets who were...
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Under the Skin
... toward a finish line of full legal recognition for gay and lesbian couples, after which everyone could finally head home, giddy and tearful, to husbands and wives. Andrew Sullivan, more honest about...
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Spy Maintenance
... the role that has outlived his work: imperious émigré writer, surrounded by a succession of young lovers, cast of famous courtiers, and a daily regimen at his desk that would be the envy of...
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Eyes Wide Shut
... be nice to people.” When John Edwards staffer Andrew Young came to town, his colleagues warned him it was “miserable” because “the people here suck.” DC has long been called a fetid swamp full of...
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An Afterlife to Remember
... Diderot’s death. In Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely, Andrew S. Curran emphasizes Diderot’s own patience with his most complex thought. “That [Diderot] refrained from publishing (or taking...
