What’s a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture? And what’s contemporary culture supposed to do with novelists? In The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem, tangling with what he calls the “white elephant” role of the writer as public intellectual, arrives at an astonishing range of answers. Learn More
Collects the results of a literary experiment in which a best-selling or popular author wrote a short fictional prose story about an object on eBay, raising its value; the profit from the object’s sale then went to charity. Learn More
In the wake of Fantagraphics' I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets: The Comics of Fletcher Hanks comes Supermen!, a collection of never-before-reprinted oddities from cartoonists working at the dawn of the comic-book format. Learn More
The story of a mute, reluctant super hero from another planet, and the earthly teenager with whom he shares a strange destiny ó and the legion of robots and nanoviruses that have been sent from afar to hunt the two of them down. Learn More
Even beyond Edmund White's youthful hustler, Joyce Carol Oates' fatherly killer, and Roddy Doyle's Rwandan refugee, Issue 18 will not stay at home. Learn More