I’d been working at Balthazar for a few months when Debra pulled me aside to tell me they knew I’d lied on my resume. Was I ...

In the latter half of my student days I chose for myself three Arab friends: a Palestinian, a Sudanese, and the third was a ...

I swiveled my head then to find a deercamouflaged by the leaves no longer there“what should I do with someone’s silhouette?” ...

December 8, 2025 – “On the historic day when he finally reaches Lhasa, his journal entry begins: 'Our first care was to ...

Monsieur Baba appeared out of a dusty white Toyota, which he was maneuvering with one hand. He was dressed in used dusty blue ...

New books by Joe Brainard, Peter Handke, Tarpley Hitt, Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, Christian Schlegel, and Olga Tokarczuk.

Happy endings are just about a question of the place where you choose to stop the story. In a life, there’s lots of moments ...

Just as the sun begins to peek over the flat horizon of Coon Rapids, Iowa, 1,383 pigeons fill the sky. The birds pour out as a single winged mass from the rows of flung-open coops on the transport ...

I was married to a moody millionaire Parisian and I was trying to stay with him—I still loved certain things about him, and I loved everything about my stepchildren and the French way of life. But it ...

Why has Italian cinema lost its appeal abroad? It must be the Ponentino—the wind from the sea—blowing through the baroque gardens, or the scent of the Roman pines rising from ruins, but each time I ...

“Who is Madeline?” asks my daughter. We’ve been singing that new Lily Allen song all morning—“Da da da da da da da who’s Madeline?”; we can’t get it out of our heads. How should I answer? Madeline ...

To descend from Bonaparte and the Empire into what followed is to descend from a mountain into an abyss. Didn’t everything end with Napoleon? Should I even speak of anything else? What character can ...