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Macedonio Fernández: The Man Who Invented Borges

All writers are influenced by someone, but Borges is often seen as wholly self-made. Marcelo Ballvé investigates an overlooked influence who himself is worth reading. [more]

Essay by Marcelo Ballvé

Becoming Simone de Beauvoir

The second volume of Simone de Beauvoir’s journals has just been published in France. Lauren Elkin explains what they show about the 20th-century’s most famous feminist before she met Sarte and as she was developing her ideas on love and gender. [more]

Essay by Lauren Elkin

Anne Waldman, Anselm Hollo, and the Authentic Avant-Garde

Wondering what comes after postmodern writing? Ravi Shankar has found it in a couple of revolutionary poets. [more]

Essay by Ravi Shankar

The Book Art of Robert The, Cara Barer, and Jacqueline Rush Lee

Elizabeth Wadell talks to three artists about how they make art from objects already overloaded with significance, objects that can be extremely difficult to bake, cut, and paste. [more]

Essay by Elizabeth Wadell

Why I Joined the POD People

Print-on-demand publishing may not be right for all authors, but it is for Richard Grayson. He explains why he stopped publishing his work the usual way and just started doing it himself. [more]

Essay by Richard Grayson

Living Beyond the End: On Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi

Matthew Cheney finds in Paolo Bacigalupi’s ecology-based, apocalyptic science fiction some of the best sci-fi stories of the last decade. [more]

Essay by Matthew Cheney

Disassembling Donald Barthelme: Flying to America’s Unfortunate Disorganization

Donald Barthelme’s short stories are currently available to readers in three large volumes. Dan Green argues we could read Barthelme better if they were still available as they were originally published. [more]

Essay by Dan Green

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