North American Books I Read as a Child in Castro’s Cuba
Havana, Cuba. Photograph by Jordi Martorell. In the spring of 2007, I was invited to a dinner organized by The Paris Review in honor of Norman Mailer. The novelist had just published what would be his...
View ArticleA Week in Culture: Rutu Modan, Cartoonist
Sunday I have no idea how this happened, but apparently I’ve agreed to give a talk to the entire pre-K and first grade at a local school. A total of seven classes. While I do, in fact, also illustrate...
View ArticleWhat We’re Loving: Reckless Love, Love via Telegraph
From an early twentieth-century postcard. “Kisses from both are now flying about / Where all of a sudden the current runs out.” After reading David Constantine’s story “In Another Country,” which the...
View ArticleRegarding Mystery: An Interview with Richard Rodriguez
Photo: Timothy Archibald In San Francisco earlier this spring, I’d hoped to meet the essayist Richard Rodriguez, the author of The Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez, Days of...
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