Blitz Writing
“Experiencing a premonition of its death, our world is producing discordant movements. It is jittery. There was nothing of the like in the nineteenth century. And the twentieth? Two world wars, the atom bomb, Auschwitz, Communism, the division of the world into Reds and Westerners...Humankind somehow got the jitters in the twentieth century, don’t
... See moreVladimir Sorokin • Ice Trilogy (New York Review Books Classics)
If you tend to blame celebrity culture run amok for our current national woes, you might find some poetry in this week’s news that Interview would fold, bankrupt, just short of its fiftieth year—mired in lawsuits over unpaid work and rampant infighting. But mostly it’s just a bummer, like hearing about an East Village punk den shutting its doors—ev... See more
Michael Schulman • The Legacy of Interview Magazine and a Trip to 1988
Auntie too opened her door. She had been busy sorting out her magazines, putting them neatly together in bundles and tying them up with string – ten years’ worth of issues, they were valuable items.
Anthea Bell • All for Nothing
ON APRIL 5, the wheel of history turned. It was late afternoon. We were standing inside the block, waiting for an SS to come and count us. He was late. Such lateness was unprecedented in the history of Buchenwald. Something must have happened. Two hours later, the loudspeakers transmitted an order from the camp Kommandant: all Jews were to gather i
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