Essays

The historian, musician, and poet visited us in 1927, and sent us seven poems afterwards. We present here, for the first time, those original manuscripts.

The Berlin Wall came down twenty years ago, but no fewer voices call out for freedom today.

The five essays he published with us in the 1930s reveal the evolution of his thoughts and ideas about the contemporary South and its literature.

Catherine Corman’s photographs, paired with passages from the novelist’s work, attempt to invoke Chandler’s L.A. within the contemporary streetscape.

Can a good book ever be a good movie?

Lysley Tenorio, Laura van den Berg, and Caitlin Horrocks are a few of the standouts in the latest Best New American Voices and PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories anthologies.

Walmart vs Amazon, B&N’s Nook, a Rothian tour of Newark, Lethem reads the whole of his new novel, and more.

It’s the now-standard HuffPo methodology: solicit unpaid writers to pad out their meager content, strip-mined from tabloids and gossip sites.

In 1932 I was in France for the second time, and I hoped to accomplish what I had failed to do on my first visit four years earlier: an introduction to Paul Valéry.

Remembering the National Book Award nominee.