Edward Gorey (1925–2000) was born in Chicago. He studied briefly at the Art Institute of Chicago, spent three years in the ...

GERALD MURNANE WITH HIS WIFE, CATHERINE, IN BENDIGO, 1989.

Extracts from new books by Antonio diBenedetto, Peter Szendy, Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel, Saidiya Hartman, and Lyndsy ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Hua Xi’s poem “Toilet” appears in the new Winter issue of the Review, no. 250. How did this ...

We hiked up a canyon in the cold summer rain. It was late in the day and on the mountain across the canyon there was a section of ...

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

of Sedona, Arizona, with a blank book for poems. Didn't we emerge from the same prehistoric egg amid sparks of jet & obsidian embedded in the hills of Montmartre? "Only Negroes can excite Paris." ...

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 ...

mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.

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 ...