New books from Leonora Carrington, Michael Clune, John Gregory Dunne, Marlen Haushofer, Eloghosa Osunde, and Gary Shteyngart.

From Even Strange Ghosts Can be Shared: The Collected Letters of Jack Spicer , edited by Kevin Killian, Kelly Holt, and ...

The New York Times comments section usually calls it quits at around three thousand comments. The Washington Post used to go ...

All this is bigger than ghazals, of course. Bigger than haiku. I’m saying we have to graduate from pastiche and mimicry to ...

The astronauts who planted their feet on the moon were outfitted in the same glaring white as a wedding dress.” ...

It’s a good time to investigate the paradoxes and special strangeness of Andy Kaufman and Paul Reubens, oddly alike in some ...

What makes things interesting to the reader? It depends on the quality of writing and perception—which, I suppose, is what people say when they’re banging on about Proust!” ...

The difficulty of representing the past accurately—even if that past is itself a dream, a reconstruction of a reconstruction, a palimpsest of a palimpsest—is one known to people other than writers, of ...

July 7, 2020 – Two centuries after his death, Vincenzo Corrado’s books are still reprinted and read across the peninsula. Cafés, pizzerias, and trattorias across southern Italy bear the name “Corrado, ...

Periwinkle’s first known appearance in English as a color-word was in the 1920s, but it has been in the painter’s toolbox for far longer, nestled under the violet umbrella.Periwinkle is a Modernist ...

August 20, 2024 – “I do not think we can pick up a book we love without feeling our heart racing, or truly know a creature or thing without being reborn in them and with them.” ...

I don’t find myself investing much in the kingdom of heaven. It has always been this way for me, even as a child. I prayed often, sometimes the requisite five times a day in my Muslim household. But I ...