From the Archive
Goodbye, Columbus
By Philip Roth
Notes from an Exiled Revolutionary
By Victor SergeIn his notebooks, the writer and revolutionary Victor Serge reflects on life in exile, a world at war, and the cruel fates of his friends.
The Daily
Arts & Culture
Poetry Rx
By Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire SchwartzIn our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Kaveh Akbar is on the line.
Poetry Rx
The Stupid Classics Book Club
By Elisa GabbertThe project of this book club would be to read all the corny stuff from the canon that we really should have read in school but never did.
The Daily
Mess With a Classic
Feminize Your Canon
By Emma GarmanOur monthly column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors.
Feminize Your Canon
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Easter in Sri Lanka: Today Is Loss That Isn’t Loss
By Vyshali ManivannanSunday’s bombings came as a reminder that the cycle of violence continues, along with the trauma it leaves in its wake.
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Postcards
Eat Your Words
By Valerie StiversCooking up recipes drawn from the works of various writers.
Eat Your Words
Breastfeeding
By Alice MattisonIt is like watching Yehudi Menuhin on television. / You see a round face, / mute, busy, / with the look in the eyes / people have when they’re paying
From the Archive, Issue 77
Poetry
Family History
By Valérie MréjenMy grandfather made an excellent béarnaise. He made it every time we had lunch at his house, with steak and fries. As an appetizer he would give us sardine paste on toast. My grandfather brought his mistresses home and would make love to them in my mother’s bed, with her in it. My grandmother, who had been married once before, asked for a divorce. After threatening, briefly, to kill himself with a kitchen knife, my grandfather acquiesced. My grandmother got married again, this time to a gigolo, and my grand-father married his secretary, who was thirty years his junior. For their honeymoon, he sent her on vacation with my mother, since business kept him i…
