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
Look
Eat Your Words
By Valerie StiversCooking up recipes drawn from the works of various writers.
Eat Your Words
Gospodar
By Garth GreenwellIt would have made me laugh in English, I think, the word he used for himself and that he insisted I use for him—not that he had had to insist, of course, I would call him whatever he wanted. But in his language there was a resonance it would have lacked in my own.
From the Archive, Issue 209
Fiction
Bodily Harm
By Margaret AtwoodWho knows what goes on in their heads? said Jocasta. They were well into the second carafe of wine. Not me, I’ve stopped even trying. It used to be women that were so mysterious, remember? Well, not any more, now it’s men.
