From the Archive
Fam
By Venita Blackburn
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
Look
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
Visual Magicians in the Hills of Connecticut
By Robert PranzatelliOn John Kane’s photography of Pilobolus and Momix.
The Daily
Arts & Culture
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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More Obscene Than de Sade
By Luc SanteFotonovela, fumetti, roman-photo—the form, which never got much traction in Anglo-Saxon countries, was associated with the poor and unlettered, the naive and sheltered and perhaps delusional.
The Daily
Pinakothek
Eat Your Words
By Valerie StiversCooking up recipes drawn from the works of various writers.
Eat Your Words
The Mexican Girl
By Jack KerouacI had bought my ticket and was waiting for the L.A. bus when all of a sudden I saw the cutest little Mexican girl in slacks come cutting across my sight. She was in one of the buses that had just pulled in with a big sigh of air brakes and was discharging passengers for a rest stop. Her breasts stuck out straight; her little thighs looked delicious; her hair was long and lustrous black; and her eyes were great blue windows with timidities inside. I wished I was on her bus.
From the Archive, Issue 11
Fiction
Bicentennial
By Dan ChiassonMoving as a mind moves across a math problem, / Or an eye across a lover’s body, / Or a dragonfly across the sky, / Or history, through wars and bodies, / Or a film from frame to frame, / Or the moods, strangers to each other, / Or a ferry across a lake all day,
