The next morning, five monks came from out of state to officiate the second part of the ceremony—three from New York, one ...

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

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

All this is bigger than ghazals, of course. Bigger than haiku. I’m saying we have to graduate from pastiche and mimicry to ...

From Even Strange Ghosts Can be Shared: The Collected Letters of Jack Spicer , edited by Kevin Killian, Kelly Holt, and ...

The astronauts who planted their feet on the moon were outfitted in the same glaring white as a wedding dress.” ...

This is Tayve Neese’s unsettling poem “Because my daughters are growing.” The children’s refrain (“Oh, Spider Mother”) about their mother turns out, in that unforgettable final turn, to prefigure ...

Precarity and creativity in other people’s homes. When I moved back to Portland, Oregon, in 2010, after four years away in New York and Arizona, no one would hire me. Not Whole Foods, not the local ...

The Paris Review is a literary magazine featuring original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers.

Geoff Dyer’s new memoir, Homework, was originally called “A Happening.” There would have been something of a joke to this discarded title; from one point of view, nothing much happens in the book.

One of Jane Austen’s many mind-bending skills was her ability to wrest so much drama from a world that was, by present-day standards, almost unfathomably static. Austen’s novels are preindustrial time ...