Berfrois

New York

The real Coney Island razzle

‘Though I was nervous about tapping into this inherited animosity in Sunnyside, I was more excited by the fantasy of neighborly love’

Joyce Carol Oates returns home

Ashis Nandy on culture, terror, despair…

Jonathan Lethem visits his strangest destination yet: the Upper East Side

Slumming it upwards

Short story: ‘Agreeable’ by Jonathan Franzen
Poetry podcast: Monica Ferrell reads Beautiful Funeral
Slideshow: Ghada Amer’s Erotic Embroidery
Podcast: Dan Chiasson on Lydia Davis
Illustrated book excerpt: Know Your Rodent
Podcast: The Gold Standard and the Eurozone Crisis