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Enough is Enough! Jeeves and Wooster Stories Censored to Avoid Offending Modern Readers

Fiction from The Drift: 'Thrown' by Clare Needham

Eight Poets on the Possibilities of the Form; This National Poetry Month, read Precious Okoyomon, Hanif Abdurraqib, Cleo Wade, and other artists' thoughts on the power of the poetic form

Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Questionnaire: Novelist Joy Williams

Actor and Comedian Steve Martin 'My Husband’s Secret Life' in New Yorker, Shouts & Murmurs

Emily Dickinson’s Bowl of Gemstones; For most of her life, the great American poet lived a life of solitude in Massachusetts. It was only after she died, at the age of 55, that the world discovered her.


'Shepard & Dark' Official Trailer; New Doc of the Playwright Sam Shepard and His Old Friend


New Criterion: A White Russian on the Rocks; On Alexander Voloshin and White Russian Hollywood

Two Sides to a Story: Why Feminist Retellings Are Filling Our Bookshelves


Found: A German Soldier’s WWII Scrapbook

New Yorker: Shape-Shifting Short-Story Collection Defies Categorization; Kelly Link’s postmodern fairy tales make the case for enchantment


‘This Is Her Reality’: The First-Ever Biography on Hilma af Klint Unearths How the Swedish Artist Lived, Worked, and Communed With Spirits

Pound’s Depreciation; On whether Ezra Pound will stand the tests of time

“This Fairground Farce of Light”: Vladimir Nabokov’s Short Poem “The Cinema” (1928)


New Criterion: The Cracked Kettle of Flaubert; 'On Flaubert: A Biography' by Frederick Brown

The Last Words of a Doomed Poet; Chidiock Tichborne’s extraordinary poem written on the eve of his execution

A Museum Guard’s Ode to the Healing Power of Art; In 'All the Beauty in the World', Patrick Bringley revisits the many ways that art meets life, and life art, and how death is often the bridge between them


The Final Lessons of Janet Malcolm; The late author’s posthumous collection Still Pictures reveals the anxiety and acuity of a writer’s life – and questions the very act of its telling

Eleanor Catton Wants Plot to Matter Again; In “Birnam Wood,” the novelist suggests that choices—how they’re made, and the long, hidden trail of their consequences—are what lend a story meaning

Curious Obituary Artist Adam McEwen: Drawing with Words; With Gagosian

New Yorker Short Fiction: "Wednesday’s Child" by Yiyun Li


The Autobiography 'Swanson on (Gloria) Swanson' was the product of a literary quadrangle with all the emotional complexity—and sexual tension—of her immortal comeback vehicle, 'Sunset Boulevard.' Breaking his silence four decades after ghostwriting the book, ghostwriter Wayne Lawson sets the record straight


Rilke’s Eternal Question: Does the outer space into which we dissolve taste of us at all?

Review: Two Artists’ Books on Dystopia; 'Crystal Clear, Western Waters'by Sant Khalsa, and 'drawing' by Laurie Lipton


Things Worth Remembering: W. H. Auden’s Poignant Embrace


Eating and Reading with Katherine Mansfield, a great master of the short story form



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