Matthew Neill Null is author of the novel Honey from the Lion and the story collection Allegheny Front. He is currently the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellow in Literature at the American Academy in Rome.
Maria Beig, still living at ninety-six, is the startling chronicler of life in Swabia, a rural, Catholic region of southern Germany, a place of farms and rolling hills, of country fatalism and sublimated dreams. Her books capture the precariousness of…
In September, the county sent the dying to the island. This scrap of ground, ten or twelve acres, would have been unremarkable if not for the fact that it was surrounded by water. The island was in the gorge…
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