Excerpts Old Lesbian Love Sandra Gail Lambert - 3.5.2024 The sexual objectification of the body, of our bodies, is less an insult these days and more of a goal. Sandra Gail Lambert - 3.5.2024
Excerpts The French Cartoonist Who Limned New York City Marc Lecarpentier - 2.29.2024 "While Paris is gray-blue, New York is very, very colorful." Marc Lecarpentier - 2.29.2024
Excerpts How English Took Over the World Rosemary Salomone - 2.27.2024 English has become not just the “language of Europe”—it has become the dominant lingua franca of the world. Rosemary Salomone - 2.27.2024
Excerpts What’s Wrong with Me? Erin Williams - 2.22.2024 "We know that our health-care system is failing people who live with chronic pain and illness. I know because it's failing me." Erin Williams - 2.22.2024
Excerpts Language That Lives: How to Translate an Italian Master Brian Robert Moore - 2.21.2024 Far from being ornamental, wordplay serves a very specific function in 'Verdigris.' Brian Robert Moore - 2.21.2024
Excerpts The Enduring Influence of the Op-Ed Bécquer Seguín - 1.22.2024 Despite fears that an array of new shortform writing on the internet would spell an end to the op-ed, the opposite seems to have happened. Bécquer Seguín - 1.22.2024
Excerpts The Forgotten History of the Chapter Nicholas Dames - 11.27.2023 The chapter possesses the trick of vanishing while in the act of serving its various purposes. Nicholas Dames - 11.27.2023
Excerpts Lawrence Wright on Larry McMurtry Lawrence Wright - 9.6.2023 McMurtry was ruddering against the idea of the great Texas myth, which glorified a way of life that was mostly stultifying and mean. Lawrence Wright - 9.6.2023
Excerpts Leonora Carrington’s New York Year Joanna Moorhead - 8.22.2023 Leonora was divided between quite different lives in New York. Some of the time, she was a lovelorn wife; other times she was an up-and-coming surrealist superstar. Joanna Moorhead - 8.22.2023
Excerpts Two Pisces Emote About the Passage of Time Kate Doyle - 7.12.2023 "She appreciates the sensation of stripping away what once delighted her—a feeling like she is getting out ahead of the inevitable." Kate Doyle - 7.12.2023
Excerpts “Now You Make the Tiger”: An Excerpt from Tania James’s ‘Loot’ Tania James - 6.5.2023 "The French word for animal comes from the Latin animus, meaning breath." Tania James - 6.5.2023
Excerpts I’m the One Who Survives: An Excerpt from ‘The Postcard’ Anne Berest - 5.15.2023 I remember with cruel clarity the day when someone said to me—I was still only little—“Your family died in an oven.” Anne Berest - 5.15.2023
Excerpts My Fairy-Tale Life Jack Zipes - 4.6.2023 Jack Zipes has spent 80 years thinking about fairy tales. Here's what he learned. Jack Zipes - 4.6.2023
Excerpts “You Can’t Hurt Like Me”: A First Look at ‘Bark On’ Mason Boyles - 11.25.2022 An exclusive excerpt and cover reveal for 'Bark On,' the debut novel by Mason Boyles. Mason Boyles - 11.25.2022
Excerpts Nineteen and Pregnant in 1969 Patricia Grayhall - 11.1.2022 I hadn’t been religious for some time, but I prayed, 'God, please don’t let me die.' Patricia Grayhall - 11.1.2022
Excerpts Ain’t That Pretty at All; Or, Going to the Tigers-Robert Cohen Robert Cohen - 10.28.2022 Like most people, I would often prefer to be someone else. Ideally, the prose this other self would write would not be like mine at all. Robert Cohen - 10.28.2022