Violence and the Sacred
November 6
“I must create an oeuvre of the beast.”
Ryan Ruby
Ryan Ruby is the author of Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry (Seven Stories Press, 2024) and The Zero and the One: A Novel (Twelve Books, 2017). For his essays and reviews, which have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and Bookforum, he received the Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism. He lives in Berlin.
Phony War, Phony Peace
November 21, 2017
Julien Gracq's "Balcony in the Forest" (1958) wonders whether we see too many futures at once.
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Michael R. Bloomberg
If you were a New Yorker, you probably went to sleep on the night of September 10, 2001, thinking that the most important thing you would do the next day would be to head to your local polling place and cast your vote in a mayoral primary. Your task was to choose the Democrat ...