A book is always about the world, and happy people don’t have time for “about.” 14. Through writing, if you’re lucky, you ...

The Guide is either the train hopper’s Bible or an outdated relic, a must-have or a crutch, depending on whom you ask.” ...

It turns out that for Ashbery, the big theory was psychoanalysis, the process by which secondhand knowledge becomes firsthand.” ...

In his new memoir, I Regret Almost Everything, Keith McNally’s tells us that his heart has been broken many times over—but it ...

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Margo Jefferson, Marie NDiaye, A. M. Homes, D. A. Powell, Amie Barrodale, Susan Howe, Domenico Starnone, Miriam Toews, Edward Salem ...

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 ...

From the original Paris Review website that launched in 1996, founding editor George Plimpton on the history of the Paris Review. From the original Paris Review website that launched in 1996, an ...

“Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it. . . . Somehow the book doesn't leave you when you're asleep right next to it.” ...

I was born in a town with two traffic lights. It was always early in the morning. The birds did not have feathers, or beaks.