The Situation in American Writing: Philipp Meyer
You don’t choose to be an artist. It’s something you just are. The only question is how much you are willing to sacrifice to make art.
The Situation in American Writing: Marilynne Robinson
As Americans we need to stop irrational attacks on our own government, at the same time that we find some way to hold it to the standards of dignity and integrity we and the world have a right to demand of it.
Introducing The Situation in American Writing
The Situation in American Writing: seven questions about literature, politics and identity.
The week’s best online fiction.
Outrageous Fortune: Shakespeare on TV
The Canadian television show Slings and Arrows is a send-up of Canada’s Stratford Theater Festival; but unlike most contemporary satire, it is also loving and imaginatively daring.
The week’s best online fiction.
The week’s best online fiction.
Full Stop Recommends (Nov. 14, 2011)
Recommendations from Full Stop editors: Charles Simic on Joseph Cornell, “Spem in Alium” by Thomas Tallis, Grace Paley, The Minutemen, and DOWNTON ABBEY.
The week’s best online fiction.
Cherry Blossoms and Kimonos: The Makioka Sisters
Kon Ichikawa’s 1983 film of Junichiro Tanizaki’s novel THE MAKIOKA SISTERS is one of the great movies of its era and one of the finest modern film adaptations of a literary source.