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“I’M NOT THE FIRST person who feels that it’s the writer’s true occupation to travel,” novelist James Salter told The Paris Review. Whether exploring the world or cultivating one’s observational awareness — the sense that you’re a tourist in your own...

Kenneth Goldsmith on the poetics of appropriation (video). * Edouard Levé‘s Oeuvres. * An interview with Simon Critchley. * Lydia Davis: “Often, I immediately fictionalized something real in my own situation, as practice, or as a way of starting on a...

TODAY: In 1928, Philip K. Dick is born. Doctors who tell stories: on Oliver Sacks and narrative medicine. | Literary Hub Our staff shelf: Literary Hub’s best books of 2015. | Literary Hub Elif Batuman on loving A Little Life, a combination of “gratuitously...

November/December 2016 Michael Szczerban Editor Rob Spillman talks Tin House—the magazine, the books, the summer workshop—and the pleasures, perils, and surprises of independent publishing. Article Thumbnail: spillman_thumbnail.jpg Page 1 This...

The Agency’s literary ambitions shaped the industry by DARIEN CAVANAUGH Originally published on May 2, 2015. During the Cold War, Moscow’s Ministry of Culture was a master of censorship. The Kremlin’s cultural bulwark screened non-Russian films, suppressed...