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 ...

A sentence is hard for a sudden to spin into space. See the hand perch on to fish out on the limb so to speak?

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

of Sedona, Arizona, with a blank book for poems. Didn't we emerge from the same prehistoric egg amid sparks of jet & obsidian embedded in the hills of Montmartre? "Only Negroes can excite Paris." ...

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 ...

“Tour of the World” and “The Excursion” are both photographic serials by Jean Le Gac, a Parisian conceptual artist in his early forties. In each, apparent vacation snapshots are arranged in order and ...