In the Current Issue
Self-Reliance
By Maureen N. McLane
Cooking with Eileen Chang
By Valerie StiversIn Valerie Stivers’s Eat Your Words series, she cooks up recipes drawn from the works of various writers. The 1940s wartime Shanghai in Love in a Fallen City, a book of short stories by Eileen Chang (1920–1995), is a bitter and glamorous world…
The Daily
Eat Your Words
Emmy Moore's Journal
By Jane BowlesOn certain days I forget why I’m here. Today once again wrote my husband all my reasons for coming. He encouraged me to come each time I was in doubt. He said that the worst danger for me was a state of vagueness, so I wrote telling him why I had come to the Hotel Henry—my eighth letter on this subject—but with each new letter I strengthen my position. I am reproducing the letter here.
From the Archive, Issue 56
Fiction
Advertisement
Remembering Stanley Cavell
By Patrick MackieWhile driving back from a party through the warm London night last Monday evening, I decided to tell my girlfriend about Stanley Cavell’s interpretation of Macbeth. The story does not reflect any better on me, if you know the essay in question. I…
The Daily
In Memoriam
Wild Escapes
By Katha PollittEvery night they went a little farther. / Restless, too hot to sleep / under the too-bright quilts she had made as a girl / the farmer’s wife imagined she could hear them / slipping away like daughters
From the Archive, Issue 77
Poetry
Homesickness
By John AshberyThe deep water in the travel poster finds me / In the change as I was about to back away / From the idea of the comedy around us— / In the chairs. And you too knew how to do the job / Just right. Trumpets in the afternoon / And you first get down to business and / The barges disappear, one by one, up the river.
From the Archive, Issue 79
Poetry
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.
