“I don’t think one really gets permission to do things. You do them because you have to do them, and nothing else will do.”

It would have made me laugh in English, I think, the word he used for himself and that he insisted I use for him—not that he had had to insist, of course, I would call him whatever he wanted.

Garth Greenwell talks to composer Alan Pierson about creating an immersive musical experience using twenty-six screens placed around his apartment. 

‘A Fairly Honourable Defeat’ is far from perfect, but in none of Murdoch’s other novels is a same-sex marriage allowed to become the center of a moral world.

  In October 2016, at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, the theater artist Taylor Mac performed A 24-Decade History of Popular Music in its entirety for the first and only time. The show, which Mac had been developing since 2012, retells Americ…

  Last month, the British Library hosted a conversation between the journalist and filmmaker David France and writer Garth Greenwell on the occasion of the publication, last November, of France’s book How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of H…