The Israeli author on the dramatic family histories that fuel his work and the broken promises of his homeland.

A woman in white came up to us and said, “You’re welcome here. Everyone is welcome here.” She motioned us into the sanctuary, Carol included, who kept on with her act like a road-show vaudevillian.

Boundaries of Taste: The filmmaker and artist on the evolution of bad taste.

The author of the lauded graphic novel Blankets discusses the influences behind his new book, the effect of 9/11 on his work, and the decline of the superhero in comics.

Our fiction editor’s theory on New York as a place of neutrality and a refuge from soul crushing lunches at Applebee’s…and his call for proselytizing Christians to leave New Yorkers alone.

“Call me the Great Rejector. But don't take the rejection personally.”

Samuel Fuller had a pulp-fiction mindset and the former tabloid-reporter's tendency to think in screaming headlines.

This film is melancholic, but still in love with the world and its magic.

This story of two robots in love asserts that sacrifice is what makes love worthwhile.

The greatest living filmmaker you’ve never heard of.

Reading Erickson is like careering through space in a stunt car—the kind that jumps ramps through rings of fire.

“Since graduating school, no book has impressed me as much as Augie March.”

Read him for the same reason you might drink whiskey neat: to brace yourself and awaken your senses.

E.C. Osondu's story in Guernica, Waiting, won the so-called African Booker—the Caine Prize for African Writing.

Padgett Powell’s Edisto, which takes place within sight of a beach, isn’t a difficult read—it’s propulsive and written with a light hand—but it's also rife with all those harder topics that make the book worthwhile.