Praise to the editors for pursuing and maintaining a unified aesthetic throughout. Friction Life is not all good. Anyone who tells you differently is either a moron or a liar. But there is beauty in those agonies, just as there is beauty in happiness and fulfillment. Art is dirty roads and parking meters, hospital robes and city scapes, broken bottles and happy homes.
Art is angry, cynical, sexual, contradictory and hilarious.
Art is human. There's a note in Archipelago's letters section from Don Delillo. This site is fed by tributaries that run deep into the American writing world. The Aardvark is published in tandom with The Woolly Mammoth . Most reviews are written by in-house staff.