
In our morning reading: thoughts on Iris Murdoch’s poetry, an interview with Maria BC, and more.

In our morning reading: thoughts on Iris Murdoch’s poetry, an interview with Maria BC, and more.

In our morning reading: interviews with Kiese Laymon and Tara Isabella Burton, thoughts on a live Galaxie 500 album, and more.

In our weekend reading: nonfiction from Jayson Greene and Tara Isabella Burton, thoughts on Michael Cisco’s new novel, and more.

In October, I sat inside James Turrell’s installation Hind Sight for the first time. This is what it was like: I followed a railing along a winding pathway before arriving at a chair, where I sat. I then stared across the room at something imperceptible: something made out of light, something not designed to be perceived by human eyes under normal light. I left the room with a greater understanding of friends and family who have had genuinely religious experiences. In Hind Sight, there was the sense of perceiving something utterly ineffable and yet utterly present.

In our afternoon reading: a chat with Kaveh Akbar, Lou Reed’s solo work, and more.

In our morning reading: new writing by Tara Isabella Burton, a fundraiser for Flaming Hydra, and more.

In our weekend reading: James Baldwin’s connection to New Jersey, an interview with Tara Isabella Burton, and more.

In our afternoon reading: thoughts on Gavin Lambert and summer reading, fiction by Lena Valencia, and more.