The New New Middle East
by Stephen Elliott
Following danger through Israel and Palestine in order to understand the story of conflict.
The Tourist Who Influenced the Terrorists
by Rolf Potts
Arab travelers to the U.S. can be just as credulous, self-absorbed, and touristically dorky as their American counterparts.
The Evidence of Things Unseen
by Anne Trubek
On the melancholy and sleepy pleasures of visiting writers’ house museums.
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Waiting for the Bad Thing
by Sam Lipsyte
A week of anticipated depravity on a road trip through California with Michel Houellebecq.
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Laurel Nakadate
interviewed by Scott Indrisek
The often beautiful process of turning lonely men living by themselves into works of art.
Alison Young
interviewed by Jill Stauffer
How law governs art, and how art governs law.
Joe Henry
interviewed by Steve Almond
Steak n’ eggs, babysitting infants, and the quiet path to respectability.
William Kennedy
interviewed by Edward Schwarzschild
“If I know too much too soon I’ll stop writing out of boredom.”
