Our friendship lasted three and a half years and one day, or one night. It was not a long friendship, but it was an intense ...

Each of Sally Rooney’s novels writes back to a novel that she admires: Conversations with Friends to Jane Austen’s Emma; ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Mark Leidner’s poem ...

Bill Berkson at the New School he told me I wrote too much like Gertrude Stein. This was quite prescient of him since I had ...

“After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So—Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket.” ...

Reading Anne Carson is like opening a box and finding a circus inside, trapeze swings, flights of form, a woman walking on ...

“There's the shattering randomness of [the Kennedy assassination]: the missing motive, the violence that people seem to watch simultaneously from a disinterested distance.” ...

generally traverse the water in a skid. They stand in the sun and harden together, taking turns.

A young Henry James, writing about Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1879, notoriously remarked, “One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the ...

Betty Eppes is a reporter for the Baton Rouge Advocate. In the spring of 1980 she was a Special Assignments Writer for the “Fun” section which appears in both the Advocate and the State Times, the ...