The following short story by Yukio Mishima (1925–1970), newly translated by John Nathan, was first published in the June 1965 ...

The municipal library of Rouen, France, inaugurated on July 4, 1809, formed part of this history of democratized access to ...

Enjambment makes music but it can be an instrument of metaphysics too. Read “it was broke / Before they made the avenue” and ...

Acting out of fear is not a way of acting that supports a sustainable future, which would require a meaningful horizon and ...

mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.

Wrought on you by surprise.

turned impotent, and had to be divorced. The nineteenth century, for all its love ...

I glanced up from my desk as an attractive couple came into the gallery. We exchanged greetings. They made a cursory tour of the space. I’d seen only a postage-stamp headshot on the back of a book, ...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that “women were definitely not supposed to write,” in an excerpt from her Art of Poetry interview with Jessica ...

Wind from the northwestern quarter is lifting him high above ...