interviews

• kate zambreno on her new book
• ...and another one
• a pure life of the mind: an interview with karen olsson

articles

• on writing through a residency that never happened
• private lives, public faces: on what's revealed by hannah arendt's archives
• the perks of reading across genre as both bookseller and writer
• karen olsson's notes on craft

books

• 84, charing cross road – helene hanff
• aug. 9 - fog – kathryn scanlan
• the prime of miss jean brodie – muriel spark
• the weil conjectures: on math and the pursuit of the unknown – karen olsson
• parnassus on wheels – christopher morley

plays

• saint joan – george bernard shaw
• joe turner's come and gone – august wilson

poetry

• the house on marshland – louise glück
• ardours and endurances – robert nichols