We hiked up a canyon in the cold summer rain. It was late in the day and on the mountain across the canyon there was a section of ...

Varlam Shalamov claimed not to have learned anything from the Gulag except how to wheel a loaded barrow. But one of his fragmentary writings, dated 1961, tells us more.

of Sedona, Arizona, with a blank book for poems. Didn't we emerge from the same prehistoric egg amid sparks of jet & obsidian embedded in the hills of Montmartre? "Only Negroes can excite Paris." ...

Now she is gone. Now I encounter her body.

In his photographic sequences, Duane Michals has expanded the possibilities of his medium. While most photo- graphs deal with static appearances, Michals' depend on trans- formations and ...

mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.

useless, untender absences with bronze torsos.

William Charles Anthony Frerichs, Ice Skating (1869), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. In Stockholm it didn’t snow on ...

The following short story by Yukio Mishima (1925–1970), newly translated by John Nathan, was first published in the June 1965 issue of Nihon (Japan) magazine. That morning, for the first time in a ...

I only made it hard for him specifically.

In France, the public library is a revolutionary inheritance in quite a literal sense. At the end of the eighteenth century, thousands of books and manuscripts were seized from nobles, convents, and ...