When people see your truck, they tend to see what you can do for them.

In Lapoujade’s description, the worlds Dick constructs are always on the point of collapsing, precisely because they are ...

From Selected Amazon Reviews, to be published by Semiotext (e) this month.

From his upper lip a deeply etched wrinkle descends on either side of his mouth to his chin, which seems to swell and is ...

I love density. Compression is nuclear. Big family, small house—no room (Jeezy). Used to act up when I went to school—thought it was cool, but I really was hurt (Meek Mill). Free Gaza, we on the ...

I first encountered Rita Dove in Essence magazine, where I learned that she’d won the 1987 Pulitzer for her book Thomas and Beulah (1986)—the first Black poet to be so awarded since Gwendolyn Brooks ...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that “women were definitely not supposed to write,” in an excerpt from her Art of Poetry interview with Jessica ...

begets cruelty, and, before long, one would have to chop off one's own hand to end the source of self-torture. Yet, we ...

turned impotent, and had to be divorced.