Books
J. G. Ballard’s Brilliant, Not “Good” Writing
Shuets Udono, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Putting Ballard on a master’s...
Making of a Poem: D. A. Powell on “As for What the Rain...
Joshua Sampson, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. For our series Making of a Poe...
Fall Books: Zadie Smith, Moyra Davey, and Maya Binyam R...
Work Projects Administration Poster Collection, Public domain, via Wikimedia Com...
Six Photos from W. G. Sebald’s Albums
W. G. Sebald, from photographs labeled “Korsika Sept 95.” I lay motionless for a...
Two Strip Clubs, Paris and New Hampshire
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, La danse au Moulin Rouge, 1890. Public domain, via Wi...
Does Lana Del Rey Read The Paris Review?
Sam McKinniss, Lana Del Rey Reading The Paris Review, 2023, five-color offset li...
Sentences We Loved This Summer
Bonner Springs City Library, Bonner Springs, Kentucky, via Wikimedia Commons. Li...
“Practice Tantric Exodus”: Tuning into Burning Man
Photograph by Dustin Faulk. Last Friday afternoon, the first in a series of down...
Apparently Personal: On Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds at left, with a GIrl Scout camp friend at Lake Tahoe, California, ca...
MEN NOT ALLOWED BEYOND THIS POINT
Kenwood Ladies’ Bathing Pond, Hampstead Heath. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, Li...
Passionate Kisses: The Soundtrack at CVS
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, Licensed under CCO 4.0. I seem to find a reason t...