Podcast Episode · Maintenance Phase · September 21 · 1h 20m

Because the barbarians are coming today. Because the barbarians are coming today and the emperor’s waiting to receive their leader. Because the barbarians…

Readers, this month in publishing is lousy with poets, including terrific poets who I didn’t have space for and poets who I made space for but who deserve more than a few hundred words snapshotting…

The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.”

Discover the Guggenheim Foundation, offering Fellowships to artists, scholars, writers, and scientists under the freest possible conditions.

This feature, chosen by Guest Editor Catherine Garbinsky, is from Familiar by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett (Madhouse Press 2024). I dream a night forest4 — leaves lit by the moonas bats flit above—mudsplatter...

From long before the time of Homer until the recent past—and in the present in some traditional societies—turning an amorphous mass of wool into thread via spinning and then weaving that into fabri…