Adrian Nathan West

Author Archive

  • Jun 12, 2026
    I’ve never been called “trailer trash”, but I did live in a trailer in Northeast Georgia in my early teens. 
  • May 11, 2026
    I always imagined I would write something about Edmund White after his death. What I never imagined was the death itself. It came on the evening of June 3, 2025. I found out the...
  • Apr 24, 2026
    In 2014, in London for a bookfair, I found myself at dinner with an English editor who expressed his admiration of Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station. I had read it not...
  • Jan 30, 2026
    Gentrification is perhaps unique among purported societal wrongs in that its most vociferous critics stand at its vanguard. An almost too-pat example is Cea Weaver, the tenant...