Essay

“Aurora Borealis does have a son, and Edgar Jené has been the first to see him”

Edgar Jené and the Dream about the Dream

Paul Celan, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop

Landscapes of the East and West: Paul Celan in Vienna

“Celan says, we are ‘taller than ourselves’”

Anna Arno, translated by Soren Gauger

Unworlding in Atopic Spaces

I Who Have Never…

Jack Halberstam

“It-Girl” Novelists' Masculine Revisions

The Tension Between Literary and Commercial Fiction

Grace Byron

Echoes in Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Little Sparta

My Walk with Bob

Jocelyn Saidenberg

Trap and the New Black Aesthetic

A Young Music Genre’s Aesthetic Footprint in Contemporary Art

Alyssa Gaines

A Crying Shame

The Stealing of an American Cryptid from an Argentine Poet

Ryan Shea

A Thousand Searchlights Sweep the Sky

On Prediction Markets, Corporate Style, and the Death of Surprise

Will Harrison

“Back it was, up from its watery grave to haunt me”

Undead Internet Theory

Samantha Rose Herle

Nanci Griffith and the Sound of Sense

Reimagining Nanci Griffith’s Imagist Genius

Tom Powell

Veeraporn Nitiprapha's Rivers of Grief

The Current of Memory

Magdalena Arias Vásquez

Hungarian Literature in the 1950s and Today

The Art of the Offside

Zebulon Erdos

Fieldnotes on Substack’s Metamorphosis

Home for Great Culture?

Mia Rei Foster

A writer's homecoming to the Self

Pavese's Other Faces

Adam Krasnoff

When Memory Becomes the Dream

The Poetics of Convalescence in Richard Siken

william o'neal ii

How the Austrian novelist haunts contemporary literature

Everybody Wants to be Thomas Bernhard

Oscar Dorr

Singing the Blues with Alice Notley

Voice, Authority, and Folk in In the Pines

Rachel Kamphaus

Taylor Swift's Reputation

An excerpt from Taylor's Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift

Stephanie Burt

Light Enough to Ascend

Self-Starvation and the Pursuit of Heaven from Fasting Female Saints to Edtwt

Violetta Balkoff

The Museum as IKEA

​​On the V&A East Storehouse and Artistic Abundances

Sophie van Well Groeneveld

Optographies of the 21st Century

“Witness to what we can and cannot see”

Peter Szendy

Three Variations on Vision

“Nature is a dictionary; you find words there, and then you must make a poem”

Jean Frémon, translated by Cole Swensen

Reading the Body: Simone Weil and the Perils of Hagiography

Madeleine Scott

Translating Silence: Classical Chinese and the Poetry of Li Shangyin

Chloe Garcia Roberts

The Sticking Point: The Intellectual and the Fountain Pen

Frank Y. C. Liu

Parable of the Fishers: Racial Contempt and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

Max Fan

Cinema’s Body Problem: How the Box Office Killed the Sex Scene

Emerson Rhodes

Who Will Watch the Watchers?

K. H. Ecker