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Inglourious Basterds, stalagim, Eurabia-mongers, Don DeLillo’s Point Omega, and more.

Conventional wisdom holds that running is bad for the knees. Conventional wisdom is wrong.

On September 15, 1938, Thomas Wolfe, author of the novels Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River, died unexpectedly at the age of thirty-seven. For the literary world, the death of the talented and ambitious young writer was a...

The story of the author’s two contributions to the magazine in 1931.

Adam Kirsch dresses down Rich Cohen, Kurt Anderson examines the Obama zeitgeist, A.O. Scott laments the dumbing down of film, and more.

Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice has similarities to The Big Lebowski, but what they really share is the influence of Raymond Chandler.

There was the patient, but instead of being surrounded by the surgical team, she was enveloped by the metal arms of a multi-million-dollar robot resembling a giant octopus.

It is difficult to navigate the line between utility and obsessive completeness.

The story of Pirandello’s essay in the inaugural issue of VQR, in which he explained why and how he wrote “Six Characters in Search of an Author.”