Articles By nathan ihara

The Drop Edge of Yonder: Rudy Wurlitzer Rides Nowhere Again

Wed, Jun 11, 2008, 12:00 pm

The Eastern Western

The Brief, Wondrous Tournament of Books

Wed, May 28, 2008, 11:56 am

Is the Novel Prize Dead?

The Lost City; The Voyage of the Short Serpent; the Wonder, the Horror

Wed, Apr 9, 2008, 12:00 pm

Two debut novels journey to the farthest reaches

Richard Price on Cynicism, The Wire and his Lush Life

Wed, Mar 19, 2008, 12:10 pm

Demeaning streets

Tyranny of the Natural: David P. Barash's Natural Selections

Wed, Feb 6, 2008, 10:02 am

"Dangerous David" on the wonderful complexities and conundrums of our evolutionary selves

Who Needs Dreams?

Wed, Nov 21, 2007, 10:05 am

The art of fiction and the art of the interview

Tree of Smoke: Denis Johnson’s Vietnam

Wed, Sep 19, 2007, 12:00 pm

Heart and darkness

Tell No Tales

Wed, Jul 18, 2007, 12:00 pm

Rachel Seiffert’s Afterwards

Lydia Davis’ Short, Weird Fiction

Wed, May 30, 2007, 12:00 pm

Curious and curiouser

Miranda July's Childlike, Unchildlike Art

Wed, May 16, 2007, 12:00 pm

Making things

John Banville Takes on Benjamin Black

Tue, Apr 24, 2007, 6:00 pm

Still killing women

The Joy of Failure

Tue, Mar 6, 2007, 4:00 pm

Glasgow Phillips’ The Royal Nonesuch

A Severed Head Awakes

Wed, Nov 15, 2006, 12:00 pm

Reanimating Marie Antoinette

Bedtime Stories

Wed, Sep 20, 2006, 12:00 pm

D.T. Max’s and Jonathan Franzen’s mental disorders

Pretty Mysterious

Wed, Aug 16, 2006, 12:00 pm

Marisha Pessl’s Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Sex in the Age of Irony

Wed, Jul 12, 2006, 12:00 pm

Whip-smart women in a call girl’s Belle de Jour and Shelley Jackson’s Half Life

It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World

Wed, May 31, 2006, 12:00 pm

Selling tomorrow in The Futurist

Lemony Snippets

Wed, May 3, 2006, 12:00 pm

Daniel Handler’s infuriatingly charming fiction

Poor, Solitary, Nasty, Brutish and Short

Wed, Apr 26, 2006, 12:05 pm

Chris Abani and the literature of suffering

The Coffee Table, Revisited

Wed, Dec 18, 2002, 12:00 am

TOM KNECHTEL'S OIL PAINTINGS ARE SPELLbinding. In On Wanting To Grow Horns: The Little Theater…

Oh! Mary! What the Hell Has Been Going On!

Wed, Oct 9, 2002, 12:00 am

Mary Robison on writer's block, neuro-pharmaceuticals, Gordon Lish, writing in cars and her new collection of stories, Tell Me

Undead Band Talking

Wed, Jun 19, 2002, 12:00 am

Photo by Rita O'Brien "OH SHIT!" A SEVEN-HOUR DRIVE FROM "THE Grog Shop" in Cleveland, and…

The Pocko Collection

Wed, Jun 19, 2002, 12:00 am

HIP LITTLE ART BOOKS ARE A DIME A DOZEN (or so it seems) but the…

Oral Histories

Wed, May 22, 2002, 12:00 am

Photographs throughout by Steve Schapiro, part of a group exhibition, “I Shot Andy Warhol: Portraits…

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