From the Archive
Goodbye, Columbus
By Philip Roth
Weird Time in ‘Frankenstein’
By Elisa GabbertWhen I started reading ‘Frankenstein,’ I was thinking about time. (Well, I am always thinking about time.)
The Daily
Mess With a Classic
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
Meet Your New Favorite Poet
By Anthony MadridJames Thomson (1700–1748) is my private property. I keep him in my pocket and take him out and look at him sometimes. He always looks good.
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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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A Quaker Woman Writes about War
By Lisa GornickThe canon of war fiction written by women has only recently been adequately recognized.
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Arts & Culture
Eat Your Words
By Valerie StiversCooking up recipes drawn from the works of various writers.
Eat Your Words
Pres Spoke in a Language
By Amiri BarakaPres spoke in a language / “of his own.” What did he say, between the / horn line / s, pork pie hat / tenor tilted
From the Archive, Issue 79
Poetry
A Replacement
By Peter MatthiessenToward the end of the war, a certain Headquarters retreated across the Rhine, leaving behind one officers and a garrison of local conscripts. The officer had asked to be left, yet could give no reason; it was said that he was ill, and there was no time to investigate the matter. The officer sat alone in his office, as if he had fallen asleep while directing its evacuation; a desk and two chairs were left him, and a clean rectangle on the floor where the filing cabinet had been. Before the de…
