For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.

It seems certain to me that, on the same walk, two beings, unless they resemble each other in some strange sense, could not ...

My friend gave me the packet of letters to keep, and I knew that one day I would try to make something out of it.” ...

New books from Leonora Carrington, Michael Clune, John Gregory Dunne, Marlen Haushofer, Eloghosa Osunde, and Gary Shteyngart.

This is Tayve Neese’s unsettling poem “Because my daughters are growing.” The children’s refrain (“Oh, Spider Mother”) about their mother turns out, in that unforgettable final turn, to prefigure ...

From Even Strange Ghosts Can be Shared: The Collected Letters of Jack Spicer , edited by Kevin Killian, Kelly Holt, and ...

Geoff Dyer’s new memoir, Homework, was originally called “A Happening.” There would have been something of a joke to this discarded title; from one point of view, nothing much happens in the book.

Everybody likes ghazals. Or they do when they learn what they are: A ghazal is a poetic form originating in and strongly associated with the Islamic cultural sphere. It is a medieval thing—or what ...

Look closely at any moon landing photograph and you will find fine gray plus signs in a grid across each one—plus signs that allowed for distortion to be corrected + for distance and height to be ...

June 13, 2025 – Austen adaptations unspared from the vulgar polyester taint of our Temu sensibilities.

Three dispatches from the New Chamber Ballet’s poet in residence, Diane Mehta, who has observed their rehearsals nearly every week for the past year and a half. 1: The Lift In the delicate center of ...