It is now almost two years that I am at Athens, and I have sent to you many letters, but I have not received any answer of ...

The Country Husband' was, at least by reputation, so exactly what I’d been avoiding that I’m not quite sure why I chose to punish myself by reading it.” ...

The Wishing Well, Summer 1979. All images reproduced with permission of the Lesbian Herstory Archives.

I was trying to get down to the root where consciousness springs up under pressure from conflict and pain and power.” ...

February 19, 2015 – André Breton’s poem “The Verb to Be” originally appeared in our Spring 1985 issue. I know the general outline of despair. Despair has no wings, it doesn’t ...

On Yeats’s assertion that one must choose between the life and the work: “Of course, if by life you mean life with other people, Yeats's dictum is true. Writing requires huge amounts of solitude.” ...

October 26, 2012 – “TRUE!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”Daniel Horowitz takes on Poe’s classic 1843 tale of ...

One year down, three to go. Season one of the Trump unreality show was a fire that wouldn’t stop burning, set against the apocalyptic backdrop of real California wildfires that consumed over a million ...

I am partial to sentences with this framework: “There are two kinds of [ ]: those who [ ], and those who [ ].” The setup should, ideally, involve a chiasmus or double entendre or any florid rhetorical ...

January 22, 2013 – Today marks the sixtieth anniversary of the premiere of The Crucible. In this interview, Arthur Miller discusses the writing of the play, and the McCarthy ...

Most people, especially New Yorkers, who are proud of their tap water, mock my interest in mineral water; to them, “all water tastes the same.” I disagree. When I was little, my mom would send me to ...

Anne Carson and I met on Zoom last October, in the brick-red sitting room of her apartment in Reykjavik, the city where she and her husband, Robert Currie, have spent time each year since 2008. A ...