Eine kleine Paranoia
Crisis exposes the limits of paranoia as a defense mechanism
I Decide the End
An interview with Elaine Kahn about her new book of poems, Romance or The End
Private Pornography
Leopoldine Core, in conversation with Mary Elizabeth Borkowski
Teenage Dream
Now a feature film, Jon Savage's history of 20th century adolescence Teenage is a modern classic on kids and demographics. Savage talked with TNI co-founding editor Mary Borkowski on youth culture now and then
Interview with Kate Zambreno
An interview with Kate Zambreno about her new book Heroines, now in stores.
The Question of Pain
The genius and demons of Pentagram’s Bobby Liebling
Look What You Did, You Little Jerk
Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin and culture's problem with bad mothers
The Reluctant Writer
Recently published work by modernist Mina Loy from Dalkey Archive
The Color and the Sound
Erik den Breejen’s pop synesthesia and the Beach Boys’ SMiLE
The Chosen People
The authors of The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election, Todd Gitlin and Liel Leibovitz, in conversation with TNI.
Arguing the Web (3): Post-Text
Once again, the sloppy scholarship of the layman and how the internet fuels his curiosity is under attack.
In Memoriam, Salinger
In commemoration of J.D. Salinger, we repost one of our favorite essays, “Better to Fade Away than to Burn Out?” Editor Mary Borkowski defends authorial privacy in an era where digitally enabled self-promotion is the norm; and with the rise of self-publishing—an imperative.
Better to Fade Away than to Burn Out?
John Tremblay at Francesca Pia (Contemporary Art Daily) “Writing, as such, takes an almost intolerable combination of hubris and naiveté. This has destroyed many a…
Judging Books by Their Covers
One solution to the publishing quandary is in these very editions. To make books more appealing as objects, even as aesthetic objects thanks to thoughtful design, taps into part of what makes reading a pleasure as a tangible sport, not something you download and scroll through on an electronic device.
Beauties have their weaknesses. Buildings have their flaws.