Our new website launches on Wednesday!


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Don’t stand outside looking in! Come on inside and make a donation, and while you are at it, support us by becoming a member. Do it by midnight tomorrow and get 10% off, or, for one more day and a half, become a Lifetime Member for $500. In other words, do the right thing at a discount. To the hundreds of you who have already chipped in with donations from $25 to $25,000, and to those of you who have already become members, we thank you! Together we can build this thing!


As we get ready for the Big Day, we offer some pieces written by members of our editorial staff.

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Tom Lutz, “Odious and Unpleasant”: Our editor in chief responds to n+1’s Elizabeth Gumport on the worth of book reviews.

E.C. McCarthy, “Sucker Punch”: Our deputy editor on literary transactions.

Lisa Jane Persky, “Skin Deep”: Our editor at large and image curator on writers and tattoos.

Julie Cline, “A Portis Reader”: Our nonfiction editor on fiction by Charles Portis.

Matthew Specktor, “Positions of Privilege”: Our fiction editor on nonfiction by Joan Didion.

Clarissa Romano, “Mentors: Barry Hannah”: Our newest senior editor on studying with a great Southern novelist.

Kate Wolf, “Patience and Virtue”: Our new art editor interviews Lydia Davis.

Sharon Mizota, “Art Therapy”: Our art editor emeritus on the strange case of Yayoi Kusama.

Michael Goetzman, “Pulp Nonfiction”: Our assistant managing editor talks to John Jeremiah Sullivan for our staff blog.

C.P. Heiser, “Unpacking Music Man Murray”: Our blog editor visits one of L.A.’s last great record merchants.

Jeffrey Wasserstrom, “The Lifespan of a Myth”: Our Asia editor on Mike Daisey, Tiananmen Square, and the importance of fact-checking the rough draft of history.

Cecil Castellucci, “Better to Light a Candle than to Curse the Darkness”: Our young adult editor on why YA needs to tell difficult stories.

Rob Latham, “The Exegete”: Our SF editor on the crazy world of Philip K. Dick.

Michele Pridmore-Brown, “Social Darwinism”: Our longtime science editor on the science of friendship.

Ross Andersen, “Golden Eye”: Our brand new science co-editor on the James Webb Space Telescope.

Boris Dralyuk, “The Incomplete Cain”: Our noir editor on a master of “the ultra-hard boiled manner.”

Oliver Wang, “Living with Linsanity”: Our audio editor writes a diary of the Jeremy Lin phenom.Audrey Bilger, “Just Like A Woman”: Our new gender and sexuality editor on the ongoing Jane Austen debates.

Franklin Bruno, “Gilded Age Fan Club”: Our music editor on Daniel Cavicchi’s history of fin-de-siècle fandom.

Jonathan Penner, “Cronenberg”: Our film editor sits down and talks with director David Cronenberg and constructs this LARB interview.