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…
Margaret Grace Myers on the Grim Legacy of Ronald Reagan
by Franz Kafka Translation by Ian Johnston
Donald Barthelme
the penultimate story in The Bloody Chamber, Carter’s influential collection of reworked fairy tales
In “The Forgotten,” a woman climbs into a dark attic searching for a box of books and makes a startling discovery
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…
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…
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…