All access to the long-distance train platforms at the Kazan train station was blocked. Golubev showed his passport to a ruddy, yellow-mustached policeman who had an open laptop hanging at chest-height, like a peddler’s box. Like some nasty iron insect, … Continued
A Word or Two from the Lord At the time of the book’s printing, the author of the text was twenty-two years old. He considers himself a decent writer in the primitivist style and currently works in the Vyatka Cheka. … Continued
Mr. Aira continues to assert the interchangeability of the novel and the “miracle cure,” calling attention to the fact that, like quixotic chemists, most writers have encyclopedic aspirations when they start a project, a desire to include a universe of material. But every writer—or miracle doctor—must eventually come back down to earth.
As an elucidation of an under-acknowledged, and yet culturally salient, American archetype, Frederick Seidel’s work is invaluable. However, the relevance and potential force of his narrator’s voice is historically tenuous, and there are some luxuries Mr. Seidel’s dapper sinisterio cannot afford.
A spectre is haunting “Telegraph Avenue”—the spectre of, in Mr. Chabon’s own phrase, “uncool white people everywhere when they tried to be cool.”
In this trailer, we go down to Maryland to spy on Elle Muliarchyk as she shoots portraits of Stephen Dixon for our October issue. Filmed at Mr. Dixon’s Baltimore residence. About the subjects: Stephen Dixon is a two-time finalist for the … Continued
