The cowboys bowed their heads—some wept—as the announcer beseeched God to keep them safe. John Crimber, the nineteen-year-old ...

Edward Gorey (1925–2000) was born in Chicago. He studied briefly at the Art Institute of Chicago, spent three years in the ...

GERALD MURNANE WITH HIS WIFE, CATHERINE, IN BENDIGO, 1989.

Extracts from new books by Antonio diBenedetto, Peter Szendy, Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel, Saidiya Hartman, and Lyndsy ...

begets cruelty, and, before long, one would have to chop off one's own hand to end the source of self-torture. Yet, we ...

mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.

And wylde for to hold, though I seme tame. W.S. MERWIN: I think this is probably the greatest sonnet Wyatt wrote, and I think it's one of the greatest sonnets in English. I've known it for so many ...

“They did type me as a horror writer, but I have been able to do all sorts of things within that framework.” I didn’t think I would ever tell this story. My wife told me not to; she said no one would ...

Tom Fitzharris and Edward Gorey met one afternoon in 1974 when Fitzharris, long a fan of Gorey’s books and illustrations, bumped into him outside of the Town Hall, the performance space in Midtown ...

Fredric Jameson, Hanif Kureishi, Gerald Murnane, Adania Shibli, Silas Jones, Simone White, Dan Bevacqua, Caoilinn Hughes, Rachel Mannheimer, Hua Xi, Ann Craven, ...

We hiked up a canyon in the cold summer rain. It was late in the day and on the mountain across the canyon there was a section of ...