The Sound of Imminence: Ruth Ozeki in Praise of the Typewriter
I love the way my fingers have to work, forging a letter-by-letter relationship with the page. I love that the keys leave a tangible impression of my words on the…
Honoré de Balzac’s Greatest Fear? Being Photographed
But more than esoteric superstition—or, as Nadar puts it, “a vague apprehension of the Daguerreian operation”—Nadar’s written account of Balzac’s photographic reticence is also an example of what the anthropologist…
How the AIDS Epidemic Led to the Creation of Sex Ed in America
Margaret Grace Myers on the Grim Legacy of Ronald Reagan
In the Penal Colony
by Franz Kafka Translation by Ian Johnston
A City of Churches
Donald Barthelme
Angela Carter – The Company of Wolves
the penultimate story in The Bloody Chamber, Carter’s influential collection of reworked fairy tales
Oğuz Atay – The Forgotten
In “The Forgotten,” a woman climbs into a dark attic searching for a box of books and makes a startling discovery
It’s Time We Added Full Credit Pages to Books
There is an enormous amount of invisible work that is done in publishing. Adding a standard credit page would not be an answer to the various and copious labor problems…
These are the poets and writers who have been killed in Gaza.
Since October 7, Israel has killed at least thirteen Palestinian poets and writers in Gaza. If we think of ourselves as a global literary community, then these people were our…
Rebecca Solnit: Let This Flood of Women’s Stories Never Cease
There’s a problem with the way feminism moves forward in reaction to breaking news stories. It brings focus to a single predator, a single incident, and people who haven’t faced…