From the Archive
The Virgin Suicides
By Jeffrey Eugenides
Depicting Muhammad
By Michael Muhammad KnightA number of hadiths portray Muhammad condemning visual representation of living things, but the diversity of Muslim interpretive traditions produces a multiplicity of views.
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
Redux: Spellbinders
By The Paris ReviewThis week, we’ve lowered the paywall on Joyce Cary’s Art of Fiction interview, a short story by Carolyn Gaiser, and a poem by David Wagoner.
The Daily
Redux
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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A Lost Piece of Trans History
By Matthew H. BirkholdThe Third Sex, likely the world’s first magazine devoted to trans issues, circulated in the final years of the Weimar Republic.
The Daily
Arts & Culture
Eat Your Words
By Valerie StiversCooking up recipes drawn from the works of various writers.
Eat Your Words
Westland
By Charles BaxterSaturday morning at the zoo, facing the lions’ cage, overcast sky and a light breeze carrying the smell of peanuts and animal dung, the peacocks making their stilted progress across the sidewalks. I was standing in front of the gorge separating the human viewers from the lions. The lions weren’t caged, exactly; they just weren’t free to go. One male and one female were slumbering on fake rock ledges. Raw meat was nearby. My hands were in my pockets and I was waiting for a moment of energy so I…
From the Archive, Issue 108
Fiction
Little Expressionless Animals
By David Foster WallaceIt’s 1976. The sky is low and full of clouds. The grey clouds are bulbous and wrinkled and shiny. The sky looks cerebral. Under the sky is a field, in the wind. A pale highway runs beside the field. Lots of cars go by. One of the cars stops by the side of the highway. Two small children are brought out of the car by a young woman with a loose face. A man at the wheel of the car stares straight ahead. The children are silent and have very white skin. The woman carries a grocery bag full of someth…
