My friend gave me the packet of letters to keep, and I knew that one day I would try to make something out of it.” ...

W. H. Auden was a professor at the University of Michigan for the 1941–42 academic year. His course was called Fate and the Individual in European Literature, and its syllabus mandated more than six ...

It seems certain to me that, on the same walk, two beings, unless they resemble each other in some strange sense, could not ...

The next morning, five monks came from out of state to officiate the second part of the ceremony—three from New York, one ...

New books from Leonora Carrington, Michael Clune, John Gregory Dunne, Marlen Haushofer, Eloghosa Osunde, and Gary Shteyngart.

Jhaverchand Meghani (1896–1947) wrote almost a hundred books—novels, biographies, and collections of stories, poems, songs, ...

The New York Times comments section usually calls it quits at around three thousand comments. The Washington Post used to go ...

From Even Strange Ghosts Can be Shared: The Collected Letters of Jack Spicer , edited by Kevin Killian, Kelly Holt, and ...

Anne Carson and I met on Zoom last October, in the brick-red sitting room of her apartment in Reykjavik, the city where she and her husband, Robert Currie, have spent time each year since 2008. A ...

Vinca contains alkaloids, which can be terribly bad for you if ingested in the form of a flowering vine. If you’re a dog and you munch several vinca vines, it could kill you. But let’s say you have ...

I never have any idea where I am. I lived my whole childhood in the purple foothills of the same five-square-mile town and I still couldn’t tell you whether you turn left or right on the single ...

“The bee has no time for sorrow”1. Bzzzzzzzzzzzz . . . the droning the whirring the humming the sizzling the hissing the soughing the moaning the whizzing the ceaseless “murmuring of innumerable bees” ...