Reading Anne Carson is like opening a box and finding a circus inside, trapeze swings, flights of form, a woman walking on ...

Each of Sally Rooney’s novels writes back to a novel that she admires: Conversations with Friends to Jane Austen’s Emma; ...

Bill Berkson at the New School he told me I wrote too much like Gertrude Stein. This was quite prescient of him since I had ...

Arendt’s poem tells the story of her farewell to Europe and her arrival in the United States in a dozen lines of verse. But ...

Every night the same nightmare interrupts my sleep.” With this sentence Scholastique Mukasonga begins her debut Cockroaches, ...

This was the farewell: Many friends came with us and whoever did not come was no longer a friend. This was the evening: Haltingly, it slowed our pace, and drew our souls out the window. This was the ...

Death will come and have your eyes.

Each month, we comb through dozens of soon-to-be-published books, for ideas and good writing for the Review’s site. Often, we’re struck by particular paragraphs or sentences from the galleys that ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Sara Gilmore’s poems “Mad as only an angel can be” and “Knowing constraint” appear in the new ...