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Rembrandt, Seated Young Woman Reading, c. 1639-40 Courage might mean sitting in solitude for hours, with nothing to do but have faith that somewhere on a back burner in your mind, an idea isbrewing....

“If you depict the sensory world deeply enough, there is a place where everyone stands on the same horizon. There, the reader is alone, yet sharing the same sensations as the author. This can ease the...

Read about the 2026-27 Koch Memorial Editors, Tacey M. Atsitty and Adam O’Fallon Price

Human beings are made to be moved. We respond to patterns. AI generates patterns. When there is nothing of substance there, we use our imagination to fill in whatever will give us what we need. It’s n...

This past November, I had the pleasure of speaking to the amazing I.S. Jones over the phone. I first discovered Jones in the summer of 2023 when I had the opportunity to study under her for a five-wee...

For me, a masc man with a masc background and a masc wardrobe, a women’s jumpsuit is a sartorial leap. It shows my butt more than I’m used to, suggests I am perhaps more genderqueer than I usually am,...

She could not write the way she wanted to while abroad. She needed to be home, close to her people. In many ways one cannot tell the story of Vera without talking about the city from which she hails, ...

To Kitamura, our agency—and the agency of her characters—is mostly an illusion. “It is proof of the lulling quality of narrative,”Kitamura has said , that we think we have a great deal of choices. He...

The images evoke a profound sense of displacement that unmistakably recalls the Middle Passage—the forced transatlantic crossing that carried millions of enslaved Africans into the Americas. That hist...

“When I was about nine I contracted an illness—eventually diagnosed as pericarditis (water around the heart) which kept me from attending school for over two years. […] This unstructured time gave me ...

Volume 73, Number 1. D.M. Aderibigbe, Hussain Ahmed, Miriam Åkervall, Amir Ahmadi Arian, Jill Barrie, Alexandra Bernhardt, Shlagha Borah, TR Brady, Hedgie Choi, Brock Clarke, Kami Enzie, Ana Emilia Fe...

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“I think that the writer’s failure drawer must be deeper than the success’s. Because you have to go through it. Whatever it is that comes upon the writer to bring it out, maybe it’s just duty because ...

“I think there's a reader who might read my work and think oh my gosh, this is shocking and very naked! And you might have another reader read the same poems and say these are so prudish and buttoned-...

Read about the 2025-26 Koch Memorial Editors, Emma Catherine Perry and Daniel Peña.

What gets forgotten, why, and who gets to decide are some of Nathan’s central concerns. His vivid prose imbues these questions with multiple strains of pain: the pain of losing parents and lovers, the...