For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.

New books from Leonora Carrington, Michael Clune, John Gregory Dunne, Marlen Haushofer, Eloghosa Osunde, and Gary Shteyngart.

It seems certain to me that, on the same walk, two beings, unless they resemble each other in some strange sense, could not ...

My friend gave me the packet of letters to keep, and I knew that one day I would try to make something out of it.” ...

August 23, 2013 – Of teaching Ulysses, Vladimir Nabokov wrote, “Instead of perpetuating the pretentious nonsense of Homeric, chromatic, and visceral chapter headings, ...

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Jhaverchand Meghani (1896–1947) wrote almost a hundred books—novels, biographies, and collections of stories, poems, songs, ...

Anne Carson and I met on Zoom last October, in the brick-red sitting room of her apartment in Reykjavik, the city where she and her husband, Robert Currie, have spent time each year since 2008. A ...

February 29, 2024 – Reality TV magnates Chip and Joanna Gaines bought Larry McMurtry’s collection of 300,000 books and put it in a Waco Hotel they're redesigning. Our reporter visited.

October 20, 2020 – I’ve been thinking on russet lately, this color of oak and Rembrandt and austerity. Its terra-cotta earthiness fits my mood.

May 28, 2024 – “Over the next century, as other women’s residences closed one by one, the Webster stood tall on West Thirty-Fourth, a monument to the old ways of living.” ...

Vinca is a complex little plant, and periwinkle, named for its blossoms, is an equally complex color. A subset of violet, which is a subset of purple, periwinkle denotes a precise shade that appears ...