“In fact it was one of the greatest successes in all modern Italian literature. . . There has never been anything like it”: Alberto Moravia, suffering from a horrible headache, explains his work.
A bohemian paradise in 1920s Paris: Nathan Asch recalls the Café du Dome.
“God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing”: An interview with Joyce Cary.
“She kept nodding her head and pursing her mouth as if withholding some vital information like that the walls were wired to explode”: An essay by Pati Hill.
Drawings by Picasso. Stories by Dino Buzzati, Evan S. Connell, and Mary Lee Settle. Poems by A. Alvarez and Adrienne Rich.
