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When the Studio Museum in Harlem opened, in 1986, it occupied a rented loft. Last month, it reopened, after a seven-year hiatus—this time,…

24.12.2025 by Swedan Margen

“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,” his 1966 Shakespearian meta-theatrical puzzle, about tertiary characters grappling with their…

30.11.2025 by Swedan Margen

In the nineteen-thirties and forties, young book critics on the make used to crowd outside the office of Malcolm Cowley, the literary…

19.11.2025 by Swedan Margen

In 2011, I wrote that reading László Krasznahorkai “is a little like seeing a group of people standing in a circle in a town square,…

09.10.2025 by Swedan Margen

But are men actually losing? Look past the smears of Dubai chocolate, and you’ll notice that men have spent the past 11 months notching…

09.10.2025 by Kim Browne

This week, The New Yorker is announcing the longlists for the 2025 National Book Awards, including Young People’s Literature, Translated…

09.09.2025 by Swedan Margen

It’s 2018. I am, for the first time, in a classroom at Great Meadow Correctional Facility, in Comstock, New York, a men’s maximum-security…

12.07.2025 by Swedan Margen

LIMA, Peru — Mario Vargas Llosa became a writer out of love. He also became a writer out of spite. There was his early passion for…

13.04.2025 by Kevin Harson

“Nothing New” was written in 1918, not long before “Dust of Snow,” which was first published in an English magazine, in 1920, under a…

10.02.2025 by Swedan Margen

Recently, just before lunch with the Scottish author Ali Smith, at Moro, a beloved North African and Mediterranean place in London’s…

17.01.2025 by Swedan Margen

“A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” was an immediate best-seller when it was published, in 1943, and proved particularly popular with servicemen.…

30.12.2024 by Swedan Margen