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

turned impotent, and had to be divorced. The nineteenth century, for all its love ...

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 ...

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 ...

Varlam Shalamov claimed not to have learned anything from the Gulag except how to wheel a loaded barrow. But one of his fragmentary writings, dated 1961, tells us more.

How one museum guard at the Cloisters may have uncovered a truth about the Unicorn Tapestries no one else had seen. How one museum guard at the Cloisters may have uncovered a truth about the Unicorn ...

We’re away until January 4, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2015. Please enjoy, and have a happy New Year!In an unremarkable section of Paris, Roger Caillois saw hiding places ...

The following short story by Yukio Mishima (1925–1970), newly translated by John Nathan, was first published in the June 1965 issue of Nihon (Japan) magazine. That morning, for the first time in a ...

In Stockholm it didn’t snow on Christmas or New Year’s Eve or at the beginning of January. The days were gray and, in the afternoon, just before it got completely dark, there was often a dank glow ...

In France, the public library is a revolutionary inheritance in quite a literal sense. At the end of the eighteenth century, thousands of books and manuscripts were seized from nobles, convents, and ...

Whenever I open the fridge, the same poem falls off the door: “you against the green screen, a place / without history,” from Tracy Fuad’s collection about:blank. The poem is printed on a postcard, ...

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 ...