At ten, I wake him up by taking a photo. I bring him his coffee. I forgot the pain au chocolat and disregarded the newspaper.

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

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

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 ...

mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.

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 ...