Affairs at the Jupiter hotel

The clouds were pretending to be clouds when in fact they were overheard comments regarding his recent behavior, but muffled, as though heard through a wall. Unlike the personal messages being conveyed to him in the form of asides by people on TV, chilling in their calm and unequivocal malevolence . . .Read the whole article at The [...]

Great images of books from around the world and the Web. A poster created toward the end of the First World War by Charles Buckles Falls. According to the Boston Public library, which has an…Read the whole article at The Newyorker

Did it happen this way? The land lay like stone, and one night, all night long, rain pelted down on it the way people, they say, hammer hard on a stone to find blood. And in the morning the land was cut in two by a deep flow of creek . . .Read the whole article at The [...]

A blink of lightning, then a rumor, a grumble of white rain growing in volume, rustling over the ground, drenching the gravel in a wash of sound. Drops tap like timpani or shine like quavers on a line. It rings on exposed tin, a suite for water, wind and bin . . .Read the whole article at The [...]

T. S. Eliot once said that “good writers borrow, great writers steal.” Apparently taking this advice to heart, Helene Hegemann, a seventeen-year-old German writer, has “mixed” (her word) together a best-selling novel titled “Axolotl Roadkill.”…Read the whole article at The Newyorker