For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. A ...
The cowboys bowed their heads—some wept—as the announcer beseeched God to keep them safe. John Crimber, the nineteen-year-old ...
GERALD MURNANE WITH HIS WIFE, CATHERINE, IN BENDIGO, 1989.
Edward Gorey (1925–2000) was born in Chicago. He studied briefly at the Art Institute of Chicago, spent three years in the ...
I want to live a beautiful life but I can’t help but notice there is something fundamentally disgusting about it all.” ...
a walk with Thomas Mann . . . .
For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. A selection from Emily Osborne’s translation of Egill Skallagrímsson’s “Cruel ...
The last time I was in Siena there was an earthquake. The first time I was nineteen. My boyfriend, who had already graduated from college, had been in Italy most of the year, in Perugia. The plan was ...