La biblioteca del barco que me lleva hacia Anchorage es pequeña y pulquérrima. Salvo una colección de clásicos cuya letra microscópica los pone fuera de mi alcance, sus novelas de aeropuerto, de autores desconocidos, me dejan frío, tanto como sus biografías de beisbolistas, ases de las carreras o…

E. Jean Carroll. Photo: Amanda Demme for New York Magazine My first rich boy pulled down my underpants. My last rich boy pulled down my tights. My first rich boy — I had fixed my eyes on his face long enough to know — was beautiful, with dark gray eyes and long golden-brown hair across his forehead.…

Illustration by Ben Wiseman; photograph courtesy the author Audio: Listen to this story. To hear more feature stories, download the Audm app for your iPhone. X⁠— Last week I returned to Amherst. It’s been years since I was there, the time we met. I was hoping that you’d show up again; I even looked…

In 1990, demonstrators protested a ban on blood donations from people of Haitian and sub-Saharan African origin. An alleged comment by Trump about Haiti and AIDS has revived the stigma. Photograph by Richard Elkins / AP In the early nineteen-eighties, soon after cases of AcquiredImmunodeficiency…

/ Cory Doctorow / 5:59 am Sat Nov 14, 2015 Copyfraud: Anne Frank Foundation claims father was "co-author," extends copyright by decades From the Boing Boing Shop Popular Posts Follow Us The Anne Frank Foundation -- a Swiss nonprofit that supports children's charities and provides a stipend to…

Carrie Brownstein Andrew T. Warman for The New York Times In your memoir, you discuss how indie rock, despite its anticorporate rhetoric, can be a little stifling and self-­censoring. You also come clean about liking Pearl Jam. What’s the least hip thing you’re a fan of now? ‘‘The Bachelor.’’ I’m…

A writer, a hermit, and Oreo cookies: The strange and sad tale of Cole Waddell's first magazine story By MICHAEL GRAFF Published: HE INTRODUCED himself in all caps, three days before Christmas: “I’M SENDING ALONG AN UNSOLICITED MANUSCRIPT. IF YOU SEE FIT TO INCLUDE IT, IT WOULD PLEASE SOMEONE BORN…

Bob Dylan was honored by MusiCares, the charity organization that aids musicians in need, at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Friday night. After performances by artists including Tom Jones, Sheryl Crow, Neil Young, Beck, Jackson Browne and others, Dylan himself took a rare opportunity in the…

Picture it: teenage Mary Shelley was on a vacation getaway, with her husband Percy and some of his rambunctious poet friends, like that rogue Lord Byron… and out of the group of legends, it’s Shelley herself who arguably published the greatest work of all at the ridiculous age of 20: Frankenstein;…

Krystian Bala (left) insisted that his violent novel was a sophisticated work of fiction, but Jacek Wroblewski was certain that it held the key to an unsolved murder. Credit JOHN RITTER In the southwest corner of Poland, far from any town or city, the Oder River curls sharply, creating a tiny inlet.…

Credit Illustration by Nishant Choksi I was at an Italian restaurant in Melbourne, listening as a woman named Lesley talked about her housekeeper, an immigrant to Australia who earlier that day had cleaned the bathroom countertops with a bottle of very expensive acne medication: “She’s afraid of the…

There’s more to J. R. R. Tolkien than wizards and hobbits. The author of “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” was also an Oxford University professor specializing in languages like Old Norse and Old English. “Beowulf” was an early love, and a kind of Rosetta Stone to his creative work. His study…

I was recently delighted to discover that George R.R. Martin, the author of A Song of Ice and Fire , still writes all of his novels on a DOS computer running WordStar . Martin isn’t a complete technophobe—he maintains an active blog, much to the dismay of fans who might prefer that he spend all of…

Carrie_Rachel: Wrote a piece for @nytimes about enjoying the millions of tiny stages on which we participate or that we observe. http://t.co/luWv9Y6m3I

The siblings, clockwise from top left: Gretchen, Lisa, David, Tiffany, Paul, and Amy. In late May of this year, a few weeks shy of her fiftieth birthday, my youngest sister, Tiffany, committed suicide. She was living in a room in a beat-up house on the hard side of Somerville, Massachusetts, and had…

Tras el terremoto que sacudió Haití el 12 de enero de 2010 el famoso tele-evangelista estadounidense Pat Robertson se apresuró a decir que la tragedia era causa directa del pacto con el Diablo a través del cual los fundadores de la nación caribeña habían obtenido la independencia de la Francia…

Click for larger image Important twentieth-century painters, as every student of art history learns, didn’t tend to sail smoothly through existence. Those even a little interested in famed Mexican self-portraitist Frida Kahlo have heard much about the travails both romantic and physical she endured…

Jennifer Lawrence wasn’t the only one who stumbled atthis year’s Academy Awards. The Oscars are an increasingly bizarre display ofdecadence – corporate capital’s stranglehold over the film industry, havinglaid waste to competing national cinemas in other “markets” such as Europe,tries in vain to…

Issues with source material So far, I've written a lot about what I've liked, but don't let me give you the wrong impression: there's a lot wrong with this movie. As much as I enjoy all things Tolkien, it's ultimately a film with more problems than virtues. The largest and most endemic is the source…

Maria Popova is the editor of Brain Pickings, an online grab bag of eclectic information. Elizabeth Lippman for The New York Times SHE is the mastermind of one of the faster growing literary empires on the Internet, yet she is virtually unknown. She is the champion of old-fashioned ideas, yet she is…

Photographer Malcolm Browne, known for his shocking and iconic image of a self-immolating monk in Saigon, died on Aug. 27, 2012 at the age of 81 . Browne was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting as well as the World Press Photo of the Year in 1963. In 2011, Browne spoke with TIME…

The meatloaf fooled me. I should have known it would. That’s what a meatloaf is meant to do: make you believe the world is so forgiving a place that even an array of bits and pieces, all smashed up, can still find meaning as an eloquent whole. The duplicity is integral to the dish, if you make it…

Dear Wikipedia, I am Philip Roth. I had reason recently to read for the first time the Wikipedia entry discussing my novel “The Human Stain.” The entry contains a serious misstatement that I would like to ask to have removed. This item entered Wikipedia not from the world of truthfulness but from…

Just for Laughs doubles up on Pepitone Watching a comedian for the first time is a little like listening to a band for the first time. You have to acclimate yourself. And then you have to make decisions. What is this? Is it good? Do I even like it? I had never heard of Eddie Pepitone before I got a…

O Delmore how I miss you. You inspired me to write. You were the greatest man I ever met. You could capture the deepest emotions in the simplest language. Your titles were more than enough to raise the muse of fire on my neck. You were a genius. Doomed. The mad stories. O Delmore I was so young. I…

Diputació 257, 08007, Barcelona. Paseo Mare deDéu del Coll, 10, 08023. Berruquete, 126, 08035. Castellmo, 61, 08017.Travessera de les Corts, 150- 152. Diputació, Callela 08370. Estas son las direcciones que tengo apuntadasen la primera página de mi ejemplar de Autorretrato en espejo convexo ,de…

El actual fenómeno literario en Francia se llama Stéphane Hessel y es un hombre delgado, con el pelo rapado, simpático, atento y lúcido. Tiene 93 años, se dirige a su mujer, de parecida edad, llamándola "amor mío", ha vivido una vida de aventuras, coraje y determinación que no cabría en varias…