1. Lovingreading or loving-reading (a double verb, conjugated as transitive, where what one loves-reads is someone or ...

Sometimes the recognition of self and other is uncanny, even disturbing. In 1903, a criminal named Will West arrived at ...

From Mohammed El-Kurd’s Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal (Haymarket): ...

If we read Ditlevsen’s poems through the lens of Lessing, you could say that Ditlevsen’s so-called sentimentality is a poetic anachronism that functions as a subversive tool, an anachronism on a par ...

the castigations and the bountiful.

It was the end of summer, 1977. At least I think it was late summer. I found a cat, a little ball of fluff. A teeny-tiny baby kitten. Her face was the size of a coin, and was split by her huge wide-open ...

On the basketball court with the teens, I was touched by a terrifying time-suspension—an encounter immune from the numbing effects of habit and symbol.” ...

I’m tired of lying here. The mountain and the river are not bad.

It’s the tail end of January, the month of resolutions made and broken, gym memberships purchased and fitness classes left unattended. This week, we’re publishing a series of dispatches from the gym.

I walked the beach when all was dark, reciting the names of the forgotten, names languishing on dusty shelves, until the sun came out again. But are they forgotten names or only names in waiting? I ...

Fredric Jameson, Hanif Kureishi, Gerald Murnane, Adania Shibli, Silas Jones, Simone White, Dan Bevacqua, Caoilinn Hughes, Rachel Mannheimer, Hua Xi, Ann Craven, ...