“I could take a picture in 1979, and I could make a painting in 2004 of that image—I can go right back and be there.” 

Steinberg and George Plimpton discuss how the form of sports reflects on nationhood.

Kendra Allen on the benefits of procrastination, the question of whether poetry is fiction or nonfiction, and her new book ‘The Collection Plate.’

Sara Deniz Akant discusses the perks of living between languages, the joys of typographical play, and the benefits of marginalia mingling with text.

Jenny Zhang writes in a wild and phonetic vernacular, pairing the sonic incantation of visceral sounds with internet slang and bodily functions; she is playfully irreverent, deploying words like “cunt” with a wink, daring you to be offended.

Jeffrey Yang takes us on a tour of DIA:Beacon, and reveals the artwork that inspired “Ancestors”

Iris Origo might be the most self-effacing writer ever to gain renown as a diarist.

Kimberly King Parsons’s story “Foxes” appears in our summer issue, and her debut collection “Black Light” was published this month.

On the legacy of Esphyr Slobodkina, one of America’s first abstract artists. 

Yoon, whose work appears in the Winter 2018 issue, discusses comfort women, fabricated memories, and the poet’s burden.

  Nicole Sealey’s debut collection, Ordinary Beast, is a stunning compendium of poems in which she reveals herself to be a poet who can move from the deeply personal to the mythic and historic without losing the impact of either. Her poetry be…

  Her Body and Other Parties is Carmen Maria Machado’s first collection of short stories, but Machado is no novice: her writing is prolific and varied, from essays on higher education and retail consumerism, fiction on clairvoyance and the …