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.” ...

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

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

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

Precarity and creativity in other people’s homes. When I moved back to Portland, Oregon, in 2010, after four years away in New York and Arizona, no one would hire me. Not Whole Foods, not the local ...

This is Tayve Neese’s unsettling poem “Because my daughters are growing.” The children’s refrain (“Oh, Spider Mother”) about their mother turns out, in that unforgettable final turn, to prefigure ...

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 ...

When Amia Srinivasan published her essay “Does Anyone Have the Right to Sex?” in the London Review of Books in early 2018, several months into the public discussions surrounding #MeToo, it provoked ...

June 19, 1970 Sitting here in Rudy and Yvonne’s loft (airy, bright, late-afternoon feel) drinking wine, waiting for Ted who said he’d be here soon. Still getting the feel of this place. I haven’t had ...

We were sitting at a long table, images and diagrams projected onto the wall behind us, while the audience faced us in silence. I was part of a panel on hoarding, along with another psychoanalyst and ...