The Neocon Mask Removed
/The ideology Irving Kristol helped found is inexorably tied to Bush administration, but a posthumous collection of essays reveals different and bracingly diverse origins
Read MoreStrange Silence
/Stanley Elkin's fiction is marked by verbal wizardry and a searing comic vision; does a new biography do justice to his underappreciated artistry?
Read Moretumultuous atmospheric spaces
/"I learned about 'letting go', painting over areas in a piece that I might have loved at first (which often happens in my process, some of my first marks are my most adored), but which no longer worked." A conversation with Carol Browning and Karen Roehl
Read MoreForever Nell
/She was an orange-seller, an actress, a whore, and the most popular of Charles II's many mistresses: Nell Gwynn stars in two new novels.
Read MoreWife Number Five
/Teenage Catherine Howard weds the older and ailing Henry VIII to serve her family's ambition, and uses her status to take lovers of her own - risking everything. Novelist Suzannah Dunn spins a fine tale out of the girl's brief rise and fall.
Read MoreElemental Edge
/Shin Yu Pai engages with history, tradition, and the world around her in her new collection of poems.
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April 2011 Issue
/"Thicket" by Karen Roehl
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