There used to be the notion that Keats was killed by a bad review, that in despair and hopelessness he turned his back to the wall and gave up the…
All his life he lived on hatred. He was a solitary man who hoarded gloom. At night a thick smell filled his bachelor’s room on the edge of the kibbutz.…
The fight over which of our public monuments should remain where they are is as complicated as the American past they commemorate. For all the fighting over who and what…
From a remembrance delivered last May at a memorial service for Philip Roth. Taylor is a professor of writing at the New School. His most recent book, The Hue and…
From a resignation email sent to NBC News in January by William M. Arkin, a national security reporter who had worked at the network off and on since 1999. January 4…
From an account published in HuffPost in December of the ten years the author spent working as a cable technician in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. otto’s mom I…
In memory of Tom Clark (1941–2018), from a manuscript in progress. Sigo’s most recent collection of poetry, Royals, was published by Wave Books in 2017. In the day, blood, yet…
Dinner with Dear Friend, a painting by Alex Kanevsky, whose work was on view last May at Guido Romero Pierini, in Paris. Courtesy the artist and Hollis Taggart, New York…
Hands at Work III, a film quilt by Sabrina Gschwandtner, whose work was on view last March at The Armory Show, in New York City.
From EEG, a novel that will be published next month by New Directions. Drndić (1946–2018) was an author and playwright. EEG is her final work. Translated from the Croatian by Celia…
From an interview in the November 28, 2018, edition of Le Monde with Élisabeth Badinter, conducted by Jean Birnbaum. Badinter is a French public intellectual and historian whose three-part history…
Photographs of staked trees in Singapore by Woong Soak Teng, from her book Ways to Tie Trees, published last July by Steidl. Courtesy the artist and Steidl “Along Bishan Active…
“Round and Round” and “Goofy Duck,” photographs by Joshua Dildine, whose work was on view last July at Mark Moore Fine Art, in Orange, California. Courtesy the artist and Mark…
From a conversation with Jorge Luis Borges on the translations of his books and poetry, conducted in 1982 by the New Orleans Review and published this month by Bloomsbury in…
From claims made to an audience of children by speakers at the 106th Indian Science Congress, held in Phagwara in January. The statements were subsequently condemned by thirty-seven of the…
“L’Indifférence des Étoiles,” a photograph by Julien Mauve, whose work was on view in January at Galerie Intervalle, in Paris. Courtesy the artist and In the Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark