April 18, 2025 "An astonishing thing is that one does learn with age, but what one learns is not what one hoped to learn." ...

April 16, 2025 "I needed to maintain a critical distance and understand Ensign Wang as the product of a particular time and ...

For the first few weeks, we imagined the marriage dividend was we wouldn’t get on each other’s nerves as much as before. This ...

For the past decade, the “Ghost of Reem Island,” as she was referred to in the press, has haunted me.

“I know the story well,” says the Snow White of Robert Walser’s Schneewittchen, “about the apple, the coffin. Be so kind as to tell me more. Why does nothing else come to mind? Must you hang on to ...

Anne Imhof’s DOOM: House of Hope, a three-hour, influencer-studded “blockbuster” performance of Romeo and Juliet, presents a variation on the talent show more akin to a talent situation. Imhof invents ...

To pose for him after practice. I’m an artist, he told me, I coach to pay the bills. He loved Greek vase work.

And wylde for to hold, though I seme tame. W.S. MERWIN: I think this is probably the greatest sonnet Wyatt wrote, and I think it's one of the greatest sonnets in English. I've known it for so many ...

I’m tired of lying here. The mountain and the river are not bad.

turned impotent, and had to be divorced. The nineteenth century, for all its love ...

You wonder who in the world are the people who actually use stool cards. They’re the very same scum who sell drugs to little kids in school yards.

Wrought on you by surprise.