Tadeusz Dąbrowski on stage at the Shakespeare Theatre in Gdansk, Poland.

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 ...

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.

A sentence is hard for a sudden to spin into space. See the hand perch on to fish out on the limb so to speak?

This piece is fictional, and intended purely as a parody. It is not intended to communicate any true or factual information, and is for entertainment purposes only. Barbecues, mainly. And this is part ...

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 ...

“They did type me as a horror writer, but I have been able to do all sorts of things within that framework.” I didn’t think I would ever tell this story. My wife told me not to; she said no one would ...

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

When I was young, I thought Life: A User’s Manual would teach me how to live and Suicide: A User’s Manual how to die. I don’t really listen to what people tell me. I forget things I don’t like. I look ...