Matthiessen, 81, takes National Book Award for fiction
Shadow Country, by Peter Matthiessen, has won the National Book Award for fiction. (Others will object, but I’m a big fan.)
Shadow Country, by Peter Matthiessen, has won the National Book Award for fiction. (Others will object, but I’m a big fan.)
Richmond & Boston join Philly & Baltimore in the City of Poe championships. How long before da Bronx steps into the ring?
Metacognition in the rat: Apparently human beings are not, after all, the only creatures who think about thinking.
“It’s not enough to knock over a few of our buildings and blow stuff up? Now [al-Zawahri’s gotta] get all personal on my president-elect?”
Nabokov’s final literary striptease: In a BBC interview, the author’s son is suddenly certain Nabokov wanted The Original of Laura preserved.