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… Lines of  Sight When a Literary Landscape Comes to Life Lisa Golightly, Flood Line 575, 2015.   “Lines … of Nepantla .”   T he town of Dunwich, once a thriving medieval port on England’s Suffolk Coast, has for centuries … by hostile terrain and hostile enforcers. The border was also a place that coursed through my own family history. As …

… whether one is thinking of Alexander Portnoy in Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) or David Kepesh in The Dying Animal (2001) … earlier generation of Jewish-American writers and intellectuals, the ones who collected around the water cooler at … Counter-Life (1986), a novel in which certain characters die in one chapter only to be reborn in the next. Indeed, …

… For each of us, says Proust, there may be “certain bodies, certain callings, certain rhythms that are specially … frontier, taking the risk, disdaining the status quo, but also landing the movie deal. What happens to the American … offers two artist figures, both of whom were masks for competing aspects of Pound’s artistic identity: the effete …

… building in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. I have come with the intention of talking about an entirely … ritualized nature (“Absolutely. I am very much about rituals; it’s probably the lapsed Catholic in me.”). Both are … And it’s all very specific to where you are—​​the flows and eddies and microclimates and everything else. So it’s an …

… The following post by Courtney Watson is part of our online companion to our  Winter 2013 issue on Classic Hollywood. … Luckily, the professor moved on to discussing the finer points of Coriolanus before I had a chance to make any more … had been to the other side of the looking glass. I almost died of envy. Though I’ve known for a long time that much of …