Charles Kaiser on Aretha Franklin

…with in the sixties, none was more powerful than hers. As soon as legendary talent scout John Hammond listened to a primitive demo of her voice, he knew she was…

10 Scandalous Facts About the 1958 Novel Candy

…here to read an excerpt of Novak’s intro in The Paris Review. Our new edition adds a new chapter in the wild publishing history of this “transcendent work of nihilist…

Reading in Honor of World Refugee Day

…to acknowledge our existence as such and to advocate for the new refugees today. The following titles, which span novels, short fiction, and the literary anthology Freeman’s, center on refugee…

Father’s Day Reads: The Artist

…authenticity. Born in Germany to two driven musicians, his childhood was spent among the West Berlin cognoscenti. Spillman would eventually find his way into the literary world of New York…

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