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The Analytic Lyric

Nine poets in conversation with psychoanalysis
Black-and-white illustration of a therapy couch

The Future of Nationalism

Four writers dissect its complex past—and its uncertain path forward

Is This Real?

Five writers on the line between fact and fiction

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The Waste Land at 100

Selections from the archives
Folio

Ownership: An Introduction

Nine writers on the complexities of property
Eula Biss

The Black Shape Slumped in a Chair

Kerry James Marshall and the Taliesin murders
Aisha Sabatini Sloan


More Joy and Less Cool

What it means to be a skater
José Vadi

Resisting Category

A folio of Spanish-language fiction in translation

Poems on the Divine

Nine poets at the edge of the signifiable

The Stakes of Dictee

An introduction to a famously difficult work
Ken Chen

Hidden Words

Searching for meaning in a rubber stamp
Uljana Wolf

The Weight of Memory

Honoring my dear friend
Yong Soon Min

Dictee at Forty

The life and legacy of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Poems of Lovesickness

Nine poets on eros and longing

Criticism and Truth

Three scholars respond to Jonathan Kramnick's book

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Folios

LSD

Are hallucinations real?
Abou Farman
March 11, 2025

Michael Crichton

Is celebrity real?
Joanna Radin
March 11, 2025

Paul

Is the self real?
Sheila Heti
March 11, 2025

Storytelling

Is narrative real?
Mona Oraby
March 11, 2025

A Room in Dumb Bitchville

Emily Skillings
December 10, 2024

A Story About Power

Paisley Rekdal
December 10, 2024

Cento for the Night I Tried Stand-Up

Sasha Debevec-McKenney
December 10, 2024

Everything Always Going Away

Andrew Motion
December 10, 2024

My Heart and the Nonsense

John Okrent
December 10, 2024

A Lost Future for the Middle East

Religious pluralism was a possibility after the Ottoman Empire. European colonialism changed that.
Ussama Makdisi
October 22, 2024