Since 1968
On October 15, 2023, I received a phone call from my dad telling me twenty-five members of our family have been martyred in Gaza. Among those were my Uncle Mahmoud Darwesh Ghabayen, my aunt Maryam Darwesh Ghabayen, my great aunt …
Boy, brush your teeth. Two minutes, two times. Floss is cheap here, and we’re going to use it. Boy, bury the soup bones deep, deeper than the scavengers can dig or smell. Six feet deep. Boy, don’t forget how much …
If only the sun can take its sizzling eyes off Ujuamara and go bother someone else. Vehicles and motorcycles, wheelbarrow pushers and trekkers parade the street, raising dust, selling this, selling that, laughing (how dare they?). But in Ujuamara’s world, …
There’s nothing lonelier than breakfast on a broken heart, so Yuri’d gone to work hungry. A real starving artist, just like that asshole Stepan had wanted. Only now, standing in the middle of the forest outside Moscow State, dressed as …
A breeze. The sun sat high enough to burn my skin, but sitting under the thick branches and leaves of my grandpa’s orange tree protected me. A shade thick enough to withstand the glare of the sun. If I closed …
Interviewed by Sarah Smith and Marcus Smith in 1975.
Christopher Isherwood was born in England, is now an American citizen, and resides in Santa Monica, California. He is the author of many novels, plays, translations, and autobiographical books.
New Orleans …
Interviewed by David C. Estes in 1986
As essayist, James Baldwin has written about life in Harlem, Paris, Atlanta; about Martin Luther King, Malcom X, Jimmie Carter; and about Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, Norman Mailer. In examining contemporary culture, he …
Interviewed by John Biguenet and Tom Whalen in 1982.
Jorge Luis Borges, the distinguished Argentine author of short fiction, poetry, and essays and the winner of the International Publishers Prize, was interviewed by NOR on a recent trip to New …
Interviewed by Jeffrey Bailey (1976)
Anaïs Nin has attained a long-delayed place of honor in contemporary letters through the impetus of her renowned diary and five-volume roman-fleuve, Cities of the Interior. Born and reared in France, of Spanish …
