Former Carnegie Library for Sale Could Be Yours
Ever dreamed of living in a library? If you’re up for a little hard work, that dream could be yours, thanks to a unique offering in...
The Best 55-Inch TVs of 2021 for Movies, Gaming, and More
Looking for a new 55-inch television? It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer number of options and TV marketing jargon to find what you need....
Body Awareness
Many female artists—most recently Carmen Herrera, Faith Ringgold, and Lorraine O’Grady—have had to wait a lifetime to be accorded the recognition of a major museum retrospective....
Nicaragua’s Dreadful Duumvirate
Sergio Ramírez, the illustrious historian, novelist, and former vice-president of Nicaragua, could well have been among his unfortunate friends and many other members of the opposition...
My Eurydice
1967, New York City, East River From Jackson Pollock, I had learned to hateBotticelli’s The Birth of Venus— those white, white sheets—thrown back covers of the...
‘We get the Dialectic fairly well’
We get the Dialectic fairly well,How streams descending turn to trees that climb,That what we are not we shall be in time,Why some unlikes attract, all...
Exhilarating Antihumanism
Joy Williams published ten editions of her guidebook to the Florida Keys before she gave up the gig in 2003, after her novel The Quick and...
Continually Startling News
Clare Sestanovich’s debut collection of stories, Objects of Desire, begins with Iris, a young woman, flying home from college. “She is seated between a married couple,”...
Whose Art Thrives in Cuba?
The annual congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) is usually a staid affair, but this year’s was rocked by controversy. In early May, two...
‘Everything Is Fiction’
In 2012 Granta published a short story by Keith Ridgway called “The Spectacular.” Its narrator, Clive Drayton, is—as Ridgway has acknowledged—a literary novelist not unlike himself....
