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Colm Toíbín once remarked that Thomas Mann was gay “most of the time.” When he wasn’t, he fathered six children with his wife Katia. The first was Erik…
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My disenchantment with the ambition industry and the violence of professional success had brought me here. My hopelessly romantic need to live like a t…
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Why have hermits and thinkers gone to the forest to surrender to its stillness? There is a connection between forest life and creativity, whether spiri…
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Mehmed Paa Sokolovi Bridge in Višegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Photo by Hristo Rusev/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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At its most elevated, Seminary Co-op Director Jeff Deutsch’s defense of the “cultural good” of bookselling becomes a defense of a whole constellation o…
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The Seminary Co-op began as an improvisation and became an institution. How a bookstore staked a claim for bookselling as a cultural mission.
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Ingrid is alone on a small Norwegian island called Barroy. She’s away from her friends and family, and she hasn’t spoken out loud for weeks. She doesn’…
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Tompkins Square Park was at the center of everything. It was where I made my friends, and it was where my mother made hers. All the bohemian mothers gr…
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When I was a student in East Germany in the seventies, the suspicion that there was something wrong with the language of my school days, the German of …
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Dear Yusef, The story I tell most often about poetry begins with the hole. A contraband copy of Dudley Randall’s Black Poets slipped under my cell door…
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by Ann Kjellberg, editor   Some chapters in the life of the book that used to be offstage sprang into public view in the last few weeks, raising questi…
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Ethel Rosenberg, mug shot. U.S. National Archives and Record Administration, for the Southern Judicial District of New York, via Wikimedia Commons
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