You Too Can Have a Debut Novel Like Mine

by Jane Gayduk

Sitting beside a lager the size of her head and an equally large coffee cup, Alexandra Kleeman spoke slowly and deliberately, describing things in their most biological form — an ode, perhaps, to her academic…

The Forever-Doomed Eastern Europe of Our Imaginations

by Harry Merritt

Eagle Fine

Destroyer, “Times Square”

Let People Know You’re Listening And They’ll Never Shut Up

“A new study in the journal Marketing Science finds that on one hand, addressing complaints on social media does improve customer relationship with the company. On the flip hand, however, it also increases customers’ expectations…

What Is a Health Risk?

Households near the rivers that use wells are also at risk of contamination, officials have said. The E.P.A. continues…

Book Trailered

New York City, August 11, 2015

★★★ Wet windows let in the diminished light of morning. At commuting time, the most recent wave of…

Steve Hauschildt, “Vicinities”

New York City, August 10, 2015

★★★★ Tiny clouds freckled the sky in patches, and the faintest homeopathic dilution of heat and haze lay…