Mary McCarthy's writing is always taking the temperature of the room, feeling the social shifts in attention and power, uncovering pettiness and mistaken victories
Alice McDermott and Kirstin Valdez Quade on the importance of place, how Catholicism has influenced their work, and representations of immigrants in fiction
‘Blade Runner 2049’ struggles to fully realize its vision of a dystopic future. ‘Ex Libris’ shows how real libraries are facing their own uncertain future
A place of hurt and waiting, shards and splinters, / Auto glass repairs, / Vic, grumpy and grouchy, / tells customers to shut up in his Italian accent.
"And yet he turns back, half a planet taking a long moment / in apparent curiosity at a stranger’s bounty, wondering if / another gift might be in the offing"
