April 23, 2025 – "When I was a newborn baby, one of the first things she said to me was, 'We will have fun in this life—we ...

At the T-shirt table, Merrill greets me warmly, and we compare the T-shirt sizes, holding them up against one another. ‘Who ...

April 18, 2025 "An astonishing thing is that one does learn with age, but what one learns is not what one hoped to learn." ...

For the first few weeks, we imagined the marriage dividend was we wouldn’t get on each other’s nerves as much as before. This ...

In 1985, a peasant named Zeng Yinglong declared his hometown in Sichuan Province an independent kingdom and proclaimed himself emperor. As a result, Zeng was charged with multiple counterrevolutionary ...

I’m tired of lying here. The mountain and the river are not bad.

And wylde for to hold, though I seme tame. W.S. MERWIN: I think this is probably the greatest sonnet Wyatt wrote, and I think it's one of the greatest sonnets in English. I've known it for so many ...

You wonder who in the world are the people who actually use stool cards. They’re the very same scum who sell drugs to little kids in school yards.

turned impotent, and had to be divorced. The nineteenth century, for all its love ...

In his photographic sequences, Duane Michals has expanded the possibilities of his medium. While most photo- graphs deal with static appearances, Michals' depend on trans- formations and ...