If I am happy, it is because I drank coffee; if I am sad, it is because I drank too much coffee or not enough; if I have a ...

Between the beginning and the end of civilization, the Parthenons and the pelting of stones, is the narrow corridor, the spit of land, where writing lives. After disillusion⁠—but just after. And ...

His name is John Brooks Hamby, and he’s the vice chairman of the board of directors for the Colorado River’s largest single ...

In Palestine, the obscurities one encounters are often the only things that can be experienced. How is one to transform that ...

Gary Indiana in HIS NEW YORK APARTMENT, FEBRUARY 2002. Photograph by SYLVIA PLACHY.

We are delighted to announce that Elijah Bailey will receive this year’s George Plimpton Prize and that Julien Columeau and ...

What secret desires and resentments are tucked inside the people we love? A little girl’s diary, with its tiny lock and key, ...

Extracts from forthcoming books by William Stixrud and Ned Johnson, Joyce E. Chaplin, Helen Garner, and Barbara T. Smith.

And wylde for to hold, though I seme tame. W.S. MERWIN: I think this is probably the greatest sonnet Wyatt wrote, and I think it's one of the greatest sonnets in English. I've known it for so many ...

To make sure of nothing in particular, A prosody of focus going wide. That’s not till April 3rd (I found him).

“America is stuck with its self-definition put on paper in 1776, and that was just like putting a burr under the metaphysical saddle of America.” ...