Credit…Illustration by Frank Augugliaro/The New York Times. Photographs by Getty Images Aristotle taught that all human beings want to know. Our own experience teaches us that all human beings also want not to know, sometimes fiercely so. This has always been true, but there are certain historical periods when the denial of evident truths seems […]
This is an illustration of a cardboard box with its flaps open, revealing a set of stairs leading into darkness where a pair of eyes glow. We’re in a golden age of horror. Here are 10 books that stood out in a year filled with fantastic releases. Credit…Karan Singh Gabino Iglesias is a writer, editor, […]
Credit…Karan Singh We’re in a golden age of horror. Here are 10 books that stood out in a year filled with fantastic releases. Credit…Karan Singh Gabino Iglesias is a writer, editor, literary critic and professor, and the author of “The Devil Takes You Home.” His latest book is “House of Bone and Rain.” Dec. 7, […]
Graphic novelist Line Hoven is this semester’s Max Kade German Writer in Residence. Every Monday night for the past six weeks I sketched a self-portrait on a sticky note in a classroom in Peters Hall. To record our attendance, Line Hoven, Oberlin’s 53rd Max Kade Foundation’s German writer-in-residence, required 11 students, including myself, to complete […]
