From the Archive
Fam
By Venita Blackburn
Francesca Lia Block and Nineties Nostalgia
By Frankie ThomasGiddy excess, the sentences spilling over like triple-scoop ice cream cones, is the essence of the aesthetic that earned Block her rapturous cult following.
The Daily
YA of Yore
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
What Our Contributors Are Reading This Spring
By The Paris ReviewOur Spring contributors—Kaveh Akbar, Peter Orner, Kate Zambreno, and more—share their favorite poetry, prose, and free card-game websites.
The Daily
This Week’s Reading
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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Something Always Remains
By Trevor PaglenTrevor Paglen’s new book is a collaboration with Peter Merlin, a former NASA archivist who collects remnants of secret government projects.
The Daily
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Eat Your Words
By Valerie StiversCooking up recipes drawn from the works of various writers.
Eat Your Words
“When, thanks to the virtues of wine,…”
By Patrizia CavalliWhen, thanks to the virtues of wine, / I let go of solid memory and a certain pleasure / seems almost real to me / having secretly picked up a scent / in the john of a friend who uses that scent
From the Archive, Issue 205
Poetry
Magic and Dread
By Jenny OffillThe baby’s eyes were dark, almost black, and when I nursed her in the middle of the night, she’d stare at me with a stunned, shipwrecked look as if my body were the island she’d washed up on.
