OMAC YOUR ENTHUSIASM (10)

BRIGHTNESS FALLS FROM THE AIR

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By Stephanie Burt

MEDIA DIET

Matthew Battles on: La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, Judee Sill, and Scavengers Reign

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By Matthew Battles

19th
Oct

Annie Smith Peck

She scaled mountains wearing forbidden trousers.
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By Elina Shatkin

18th
Oct

A.J. Liebling

One of history’s great noticers.
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By Lucy Sante

18th
Oct

Chuck Berry

He fit emotive, supple stories into the short, rhythmic space that is a song.
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By Lynn Peril

17th
Oct

Nathanael West

The great striker of sentences between Joyce and Nabokov.
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By David Smay

17th
Oct

Georg Büchner

“A fool! A fool! Who’ll barter my reason for his folly?”
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By Jerrold Freitag

16th
Oct

Save the Adventure (10)

The picaresque: From Candide to The Thirty-Nine Steps.
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By Joshua Glenn

16th
Oct

The Zayat Kiss (6)

Meet Fu Manchu, in the 1912 story that introduced him!
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By Sax Rohmer

15th
Oct

Mikhail Lermontov

His antihero, Pechorin, would kill on reality TV.
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By Tor Aarestad