We have a news media that, principally, has no instincts and asks no relevant questions—and is failing, spectacularly, to write the first draft of history…

Although most Americans are no longer reading ‘The Custom of the Country,’ we’re still hooked on the personality cult Undine represented…

The American Reader is proud to feature ten emerging writers, whose work speaks not only to the variety but the vitality and inventiveness of contemporary American literature.

Unlike many of the other reviewers, I have no nostalgic context in which to place my reading of the book. I did not approach it when I was young and hungry for the world, or despondent in Paris, desirous of liberation from the predictably plot-driven books of my past…

“Neither the restlessness of the surf, / nor the deserted shifting sands, / nor the obscene bodies of women / sated our yearning…”

It’s as if lab scientists have data-modeled the neural pathways of a synesthete who happens to be an expert on color theory. It’s hard to think of paintings more appropriate to the Age of Nate Silver…