Photograph by Nikita Biswal. Billymark’s West was a normal bar. That was its greatest virtue, probably. It had a pool table, a jukebox, booths, a beer-and-shot special. It was a little dingy and dark. There was a TV and, somewhat oddly, a lot of Beatles-themed memorabilia. The prices were not so bad, by New York […]
Book Marks logo Our basket of brilliant reviews this week includes Nicholas Dames on Rachel Cusk’s Parade , Chelsea Leu on Akwaeke Emezi’s Little Rot , Sasha Archibald on Francine Prose’s 1974 , Ron Charles on Julia Phillips’ Bear , and Chris Power on María Bastarós’ Hungry for What. Brought to you by Book Marks […]
How children learn language has long been of interest to those concerned with its evolution. The idea that ‘ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny’ has been promoted, which means the stages of child development on their way to adulthood replicate those of our human ancestors on their way to becoming modern humans. This idea has been applied to […]
I first met Robert Olmstead in January 1987. He was the teacher of my introductory fiction workshop at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Back then you were allowed to smoke cigarettes in class, and if you were a person like me, you not only smoked cigarettes in class, you chain-smoked cigarettes in class. I should […]
