Books
In his stories in ‘The Emerald Light in the Air,’ Donald Antrim reveals an inner landscape of desperation, in which his characters are often barely holding on.
Aug. 29, 2014
2013 MacArthur fellows include Donald Antrim, Karen Russell
Sept. 25, 2013
Writers Donald Antrim and Karen Russell join 22 others as 2013 MacArthur fellows, the John D. and Catherine T.
In “One Friday in April,” Donald Antrim reframes suicide as a state rather than an act — and marks its toll as vividly as anyone since William Styron.
Oct. 11, 2021
The Afterlife A Memoir Donald Antrim Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 208 pp., $20
May 28, 2006
Archives
Until the townspeople in the little Southern seacoast community--libertarians and anti-tax read-my-lippers, every one--defunded the elementary school, Pete Robinson used Clausewitz’s war doctrine to instruct his third-graders in contemporary notions of social reform.
Sept. 16, 1993
It is the clown car joke, reversed and grandly expanded.
Feb. 12, 1997
Opinion
Not all Republicans fell in line behind Trump’s assertion that the election had been stolen from him.
Jan. 31, 2022
A reissue of a lesser-known novel shows us why her icy brilliance never goes out of style. Plus: An unsettling Donald Antrim novel.
July 17, 2011
A new book explores possible reasons for Bourdain’s death. Trying to place blame cheapens the death and struggles of those who’ve died by suicide — or tried to.
Oct. 11, 2022