From the Archive
Allegiances
By Noah Warren
Letter to a Stranger
By Remedios VaroThe surrealist painter Remedios Varo opens the phone book, picks a name at random, and invites the stranger to a party.
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
Cooking with Nescio
By Valerie StiversNescio, the pen name of J. H. F. Grönloh, is Latin for “I don’t know,” but Valerie Stivers knows exactly how to drum up recipes for his ‘Amsterdam Stories.’
The Daily
Eat Your Words
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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Yan Lianke Illuminates Contemporary China
By Carlos RojasLike many of his works, Yan Lianke’s ‘The Day the Sun Died’ focuses on the dark side of modern China’s rapid development.
The Daily
Arts & Culture
Eat Your Words
By Valerie StiversCooking up recipes drawn from the works of various writers.
Eat Your Words
Ambassador
By Hampton Hawes and Don AsherEver since I was a kid reading Terry and the Pirates I’ve always dug uniforms. I dug football uniforms, the clash of team colors against each other, and the heavy German uniforms in World War II movies; I dug braid and insignia, Ike jackets were very cool and air force blues. Whenever I drew a picture in school it was of an air force pilot in smart blues with wings and ribbons. My greatest desire was to fly a P40 over Europe and come back and have my parents say, “You were a bad motherfucker up in that sky.”
From the Archive, Issue 55
Fiction
Notebooks
By Elizabeth BishopElizabeth bishop was born in 1911. Her mother was institutionalized in 1916, and after a brief, miserable stay in her paternal grandparents’ home in Worcester, Massachusetts, Bishop went to live with her mother’s oldest sister, Maud, and her husband, George Shepherdson, in Revere, a town north of Boston.
