His name is John Brooks Hamby, and he’s the vice chairman of the board of directors for the Colorado River’s largest single ...

In Palestine, the obscurities one encounters are often the only things that can be experienced. How is one to transform that ...

Gary Indiana in HIS NEW YORK APARTMENT, FEBRUARY 2002. Photograph by SYLVIA PLACHY.

To make sure of nothing in particular, A prosody of focus going wide. That’s not till April 3rd (I found him).

We are delighted to announce that Elijah Bailey will receive this year’s George Plimpton Prize and that Julien Columeau and ...

Extracts from forthcoming books by William Stixrud and Ned Johnson, Joyce E. Chaplin, Helen Garner, and Barbara T. Smith.

What secret desires and resentments are tucked inside the people we love? A little girl’s diary, with its tiny lock and key, ...

“America is stuck with its self-definition put on paper in 1776, and that was just like putting a burr under the metaphysical saddle of America.” ...

If there’s a trick to writing a libretto, it’s thinking first about what’s happening onstage and not about what characters are saying. With that in mind, I realized early on that since the novel is ...

My very first memory takes place at the local Blockbuster store, where I went one night with my father to rent a movie. I was four or five years old. He let me run ahead of him through the aisles, and ...

Plato’s Phaedrus begins at the edge of the city of Athens, in the countryside, as we would say today. Enter Socrates and Phaedrus, his younger friend. Phaedrus has just come from the house of Lysias, ...