The nation is splattered with these zombie structures, or sutures, with nowhere to be and no path to total erasure.” ...

A sense of stagnation and stillness when what I want is for the book to open, open, open into something expansive and true.

For some months—since I was told about this award—I have been trying to find the point in my life when this fiction stuff and ...

The Plaza is a case study in the lengths to which New York’s leaders have gone to find gargantuan sums of money to enact wild ...

For our Art of the Libretto series, I spoke to the playwright and librettist Nilo Cruz, who wrote the words to the composer ...

One purpose of these studies is to be loosened from my scholarly superego (which isn’t very strong, in any case).” ...

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 ...

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 ...

William Faulkner’s drawings from his Ole Miss days are wonderfully Deco. Random House UK launches The Happy Foodie, described thusly: “Bringing cookery books to life, helping you get happy in the ...