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Essays

How Mrs. Dalloway Began

Slipping into Virginia Woolf’s sentences
Edmund de Waal
September 8, 2025
Poetry

From “The World After Rain,” II: Twice Awake

Canisia Lubrin
September 8, 2025
Books

The Richard Siken Effect

How Crush changed American poetry—and found a second life online
Richie Hofmann
September 8, 2025
Books

Green, Lively, and Full of Decay

Why Claire-Louise Bennett’s epistolary style is the one for our times
Audrey Wollen
September 8, 2025
Poem of the Week

Peaceful action

Sonya Posmentier
September 3, 2025
Poem of the Week

To Die Is Different

Michelle Kohler
September 17, 2025
Fiction

Process

Katherine Dunn
September 15, 2025
Sepia-toned image of Mary Oliver by the sea
Books

Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing?

Shame seemed like an obstacle to appreciating the poet. Instead, it became the key to understanding her work.
Maggie Millner
September 2, 2025
Poem of the Week

Brocken Specter

Temperance Aghamohammadi
September 10, 2025
From the Archives

On Some Functions of Literature

Umberto Eco,
translated by Martin McLaughlin
October 1, 2004