The nation is splattered with these zombie structures, or sutures, with nowhere to be and no path to total erasure.” ...

The man was writing like his typewriter was on fire and in flaming succession produced three books that have been called a ...

Let us consider, for example, Kafka’s elegant diary entry on 2 August 1914: ‘Germany has declared war on Russia—Swimming in the afternoon.’ From Xiao Hai’s memoir Adrift in the South (Granta Editions) ...

A sense of stagnation and stillness when what I want is for the book to open, open, open into something expansive and true.

What does it mean to be at war with your own flesh within a culture that already hates the black body? And what does this mean for black women, whose bodies are doubly despised?

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve contributed to our pages. Jeffrey Angles’s translation of “Memory of a Three-Year-Old” appears in our ...