The cowboys bowed their heads—some wept—as the announcer beseeched God to keep them safe. John Crimber, the nineteen-year-old ...

Edward Gorey (1925–2000) was born in Chicago. He studied briefly at the Art Institute of Chicago, spent three years in the ...

GERALD MURNANE WITH HIS WIFE, CATHERINE, IN BENDIGO, 1989.

Extracts from new books by Antonio diBenedetto, Peter Szendy, Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel, Saidiya Hartman, and Lyndsy ...

I want to live a beautiful life but I can’t help but notice there is something fundamentally disgusting about it all.” ...

Tom Fitzharris and Edward Gorey met one afternoon in 1974 when Fitzharris, long a fan of Gorey’s books and illustrations, bumped into him outside of the Town Hall, the performance space in Midtown ...

And so it goes, God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was formless and empty; and on its deep face was darkness. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, ...

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

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

“Anyone who writes is a seeker. You look at a blank page and you’re seeking. That role is assigned to us and never removed.” ...

the castigations and the bountiful.