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

Punctuating the darkness: brief shots of a blue sky, sometimes clouded, sometimes unclouded, blinding in the black theater, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

Wrought on you by surprise.

Less than Zero was originally published in 1985. I have a distinct memory that when I got to the end, I threw my copy out a window.” ...

“If the romance plot sets up an enticing question—Will they or won’t they?—the rejection plot spoils everything upfront: they won’t.” ...