From a manuscript in progress. Smith’s chapbook, Zodiac B, was published by Ninepin Press in 2016. It is delightful to sit by the edge of the lake under the yellow…

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Untitled, a painting by Stephanie Pierce, whose work was on view last February at Steve Harvey Fine Art Projects, in New York City. Courtesy the artist and Steve Harvey Fine…

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From a manuscript in progress. Every morning we wept an hour then went to see a toolwhining up from under the floorboards through himbarefoot in the doorway betrayed and unconsolableunable…

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From a list of accounts purged by Facebook for spam and “coordinated inauthentic behavior,” released by the company in October. Wake The Fuck UpNation in DistressViral Alternative NewsRight-Wing NewsAnti-MediaExposing the…

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Top to bottom: “Flowers for Lisa #39: After Georges Braque,” “Flowers for Lisa #62: After Louise Bourgeois,” “Flowers for Lisa #51,” and “Flowers for Lisa #55,” photographs by Abelardo Morell,…

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From Casting Deep Shade, which will be published by Copper Canyon Press next month. Wright (1949–2016) was a poet from the Arkansas Ozarks whose 2010 work, One With Others, was…

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From “Majed,” which appears in Elsewhere, Home, a collection that will be published next month by Black Cat. Aboulela is a novelist and playwright and was the first recipient of…

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The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism

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Searching for the solar system’s origins at the end of the earth

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On the sixteenth of July, 1905, the steamer Roosevelt left New York Harbor for her northern voyage. Her course from the anchorage was noisy with the friendly greetings of every…

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One foreigner’s perspective

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The prepositions you’re most likely to encounter after the title of a poem are “for” or “to” and sometimes “after”—“for my daughter”; “to Bobby”; “after Pound”; etc. They signify dedication,…

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The story of a Kurdish sniper

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Years ago, Ellie asked me to write the story of our friend Addie and the chili. The incident involved some bowls of chili, and more than one woman crying, in…

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Could there be a more alarming role model for a writer than Scheherazade? You tell a story and, worst case, your head is cut off. Best case: the would-be decapitator…

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Pawe? Pawlikowski’s search for roots

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On an anthology of Oulipo

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Instant soups were scalding up to ten thousand US children a year, the American Academy of Pediatrics warned that soft furniture causes far more falling injuries to small children than…

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