July 2021

Carl Frode Tiller’s Encircling trilogy starts from an unlikely premise. David, a thirty-something resident of Trondheim, Norway, has lost his memory. He puts an ad in...

In 1959, after he had given three lectures in the West German city of Darmstadt on the principle of indeterminacy in music and then staged a...

In 1959, after he had given three lectures in the West German city of Darmstadt on the principle of indeterminacy in music and then staged a...

In the spring of 2020, as the pandemic took hold and people across the country started staying home from work and school, car traffic across the...

In the spring of 2020, as the pandemic took hold and people across the country started staying home from work and school, car traffic across the...

“Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice,” Marco Polo says to Kublai Khan in Invisible Cities (1972), Italo Calvino’s reimagining of...

“Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice,” Marco Polo says to Kublai Khan in Invisible Cities (1972), Italo Calvino’s reimagining of...

Nearly two decades have passed since President George W. Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq in 2003, arguably the greatest strategic blunder in American history. It...

Nearly two decades have passed since President George W. Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq in 2003, arguably the greatest strategic blunder in American history. It...

In Torrey Peters’s recent novel Detransition, Baby, a character named Reese, a trans woman, considers her past attraction to Stanley, a violent cis man: Reese wanted…to...