The stranger

Maine novelist Robert Harnum has found alienation from US publishers, but the French can't get enough of him
by Lance Tapley

Time's arrows

We know that British novelist MARTIN AMIS is arrogant, acerbic, and annoyingly talented. Now, with the publication of his new memoir, we can add emotional, vulnerable, and even fallible. Chris Wright asks: is it time to give literature's luckiest bastard a break?

Party crasher

The growing grassroots movement against corporate globalization is targeting this summer's major party conventions for Seattle-style protests. But what does it all mean?
by Ben Geman

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