The problem we face involves the degree to which the truth must now compete with such a vast multiplicity of falsehoods that ...

Rose Hobart presages Bruce Conner’s A MOVIE (1958) by more than twenty years. Made of found footage that Conner took from ...

February 6, 2026 – “We are supposed to read triptychs from left to right: Adam and Eve → sexy fruit playground of jubilant ...

To reappraise women’s incomplete works can be to resist the exclusionary gestures—the refusals, rejections, and ...

Most Broadway musicals I have seen courtesy of comped tickets or evenings out with my parents. All those I’ve attended of my ...

January 29, 2015 – W. H. Auden was a professor at the University of Michigan for the 1941–42 academic year. His course was called Fate and the Individual in European ...

October 26, 2012 – “TRUE!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”Daniel Horowitz takes on Poe’s classic 1843 tale of ...

February 19, 2015 – André Breton’s poem “The Verb to Be” originally appeared in our Spring 1985 issue. I know the general outline of despair. Despair has no wings, it doesn’t ...

January 25, 2013 – “I’ve fallen in love or imagine I have; went to a party and lost my head. Bought a horse which I don’t need at all.” —Leo Tolstoy, January 25, 1851 ...

Mary Gaitskill lives in a white two-story brick house with dormer windows and a front door painted pale lilac, set back from a quiet avenue in a small town just across the bridge from Hudson, New York ...

I am partial to sentences with this framework: “There are two kinds of [ ]: those who [ ], and those who [ ].” The setup should, ideally, involve a chiasmus or double entendre or any florid rhetorical ...

Becoming the world’s only accidental architect.I first met Ray Bradbury while writing a feature story for the Chicago Tribune magazine in 2000, the year he turned eighty, and we quickly bonded over ...