"I dreamed that the milkman, the gas man, the newspaper vendor, the baker, and the plumber were all standing in a circle ...
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 ...
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.