GERALD MURNANE WITH HIS WIFE, CATHERINE, IN BENDIGO, 1989.

I want to live a beautiful life but I can’t help but notice there is something fundamentally disgusting about it all.” ...

I’m tired of lying here. The mountain and the river are not bad.

Extracts from new books by Antonio diBenedetto, Peter Szendy, Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel, Saidiya Hartman, and Lyndsy ...

What is your favorite crime in literature? BORI AKUNIN: "And when the woman saw chat the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant co the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she ...

mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.

And wylde for to hold, though I seme tame. W.S. MERWIN: I think this is probably the greatest sonnet Wyatt wrote, and I think it's one of the greatest sonnets in English. I've known it for so many ...

turned impotent, and had to be divorced. The nineteenth century, for all its love ...

The raw material for a travel book is not so much the journey as the traveler’s impressions during it. Whether based on a sustained period in one place or on a continuous trip through a region, they ...

In Stockholm it didn’t snow on Christmas or New Year’s Eve or at the beginning of January. The days were gray and, in the afternoon, just before it got completely dark, there was often a dank glow ...

The other day we shared recordings of Garrison Keillor, William Styron, and Iris Murdoch as part of an ongoing collaboration with 92Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center. Since 1985, the Poetry Center and The ...