Literature

How life transitions inspire literature and what it means to build South Asian writing community.

On process, inspiration, and the psychoanalytic underpinnings of The Superrationals.

At thirteen, I felt my body slopping. Though I sat in the middle of the nurse’s height-weight chart, though I’d memorized the textbook diagram with its cake-like cross-section of flesh (epidermis, dermis, hypodermis stippled yellow with fat), my problem went deeper than biology.

If When Harry Met Sally was a lesbian rom-com novel, this would be it.

Increasingly, poems reach me physically, testing my physical and emotional boundaries—looking for places they might get inside, frequencies at which I might hear, poking at sensuous dead zones.

Writing from Palestine about trauma and the complacency of language.

The poet on her new book, maps as bodily marks, falling apart, and putting the pieces back together.

Join us as we celebrate Sigrid Nunez’s new novel, What Are You Going Through.

The archivist and writer’s recently translated triptych fuses autofiction, essay, and criticism to study the complex lives of three female artists in the public eye.

A memoir that challenges stereotypes, celebrates dance, and reflects on loss.

The tour’s route never varies. Twice a day the caretaker of the Morgan Foundation must retrace his steps with a new eclectic band of strangers in tow.

How a collection of funny stories became a memoir about coming out, partying hard, and committing to the kid’s menu.

I am in the shower washing off the day’s yard work. Mid-scrub I realize I missed a Black Lives Matter Cleveland rally in support of defunding the police. Relief pours over me.

On researching a nineteenth-century actress and her risk-taking, gender-bending life.

On writing a heartbroken Satan and digging through the rubble of history.

Yi Sang (1910–1937) was a poet and a short story writer during the Japanese occupation of Korea. Despite his brief literary career, he left behind perhaps the most influential body of work in modern Korean literature.

“With my straight razor, I unmask the lie,” Rainald Goetz read at a literary prize competition in 1983. Then, Goetz picked up a blade and sliced open his forehead, nonchalant.

Tilda Swinton once said in an interview, referring to her collaborator Derek Jarman, director of Wittgenstein (1993): “He was the material of his own work.”

A collaborative piece on the elements.