Each of Sally Rooney’s novels writes back to a novel that she admires: Conversations with Friends to Jane Austen’s Emma; ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Mark Leidner’s poem ...

Bill Berkson at the New School he told me I wrote too much like Gertrude Stein. This was quite prescient of him since I had ...

Reading Anne Carson is like opening a box and finding a circus inside, trapeze swings, flights of form, a woman walking on ...

of Sedona, Arizona, with a blank book for poems. Didn't we emerge from the same prehistoric egg amid sparks of jet & obsidian embedded in the hills of Montmartre? "Only Negroes can excite Paris." ...

This piece is fictional, and intended purely as a parody. It is not intended to communicate any true or factual information, and is for entertainment purposes only. Barbecues, mainly. And this is part ...

“Every night the same nightmare interrupts my sleep.” With this sentence Scholastique Mukasonga begins her debut Cockroaches, a memoir that came out in French in 2006. That year, Mukasonga was fifty.

Rosmarie Waldrop, Javier Cercas, James Schuyler, Josephine Baker, Hannah Arendt, Morgan Thomas, Benjamin Krusling, Fumio Yamamoto, Margaret Ross, Ron Veasey, Ayé Aton ...

Enrique Vila-Matas on the Art of Fiction: “Literature is a mirror with the capacity, like some clocks, to run ahead of time.” Antonella Anedda on the Art of Poetry: “I write to intensify reality and ...