William Charles Anthony Frerichs, Ice Skating (1869), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. In Stockholm it didn’t snow on ...

This essay originally appeared in La Bibliothèque de Rouen: 200 ans d’histoire (s), edited by Marie-Françoise Rose. Annie ...

The following short story by Yukio Mishima (1925–1970), newly translated by John Nathan, was first published in the June 1965 ...

Enjambment makes music but it can be an instrument of metaphysics too. Read “it was broke / Before they made the avenue” and ...

Each month, we comb through dozens of soon-to-be-published books, for ideas and good writing for the Review’s site. Often, we’re struck by particular paragraphs or sentences from the galleys that ...

The other day we shared recordings of Garrison Keillor, William Styron, and Iris Murdoch as part of an ongoing collaboration with 92Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center. Since 1985, the Poetry Center and The ...

mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.

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

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that “women were definitely not supposed to write,” in an excerpt from her Art of Poetry interview with Jessica ...

Wind from the northwestern quarter is lifting him high above ...