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Bret Easton Ellis: Imperial Bedrooms

Degeneration of a Lost Generation: American Psychos What good does Imperial Bedrooms do? Why is it written? Does it entertain? I submit that any reader who finishes this novel and is able to use that word for it—“entertaining”—might honestly want to take a hard look in the mirror and question the condition of his soul....  read more

Playboy Acquires Rights to Serialize Vladimir Nabokov's Final Work

Every now and then, Playboy publishes something that really does compel people to pick up the magazine for the articles. The latest addition to this list is The Original of Laura, the novella Vladimir Nabokov was scribbling onto index cards until his death in 1977. Playboy founder Hugh Hefner acquired the first serial rights after his publication's literary editor, Amy Grace Loyd, plotted a clever scheme to win over Andrew Wylie, the book's agent: send him orchids. ...  read more

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Thing Around Your Neck

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie published...  read more

Natsuo Kirino (Trans. Philip Gabriel)

Entering Kirino’s dark fictional worlds demands total submission to her...  read more