The feelings of love coming up when I thought about him started to get overwhelming. It felt like my life had started its heaven episode—some coincidence that I’d just started praying this year.” ...

Weakening eyesight is irreversible and incurable. Thanks to modern optics you can live perfectly comfortably with it, and if ...

Where are the writers who work on the dock? Where are stevedores, the longshoremen? The pipe fitters? The electricians?” ...

December 17, 2025 – “ ‘I got a camera for $7.98—a Brownie,’ Babitz notes on December 21, 1969, ‘and have been taking pictures ...

This year, we asked our contributors, our readers, our current and former interns, and other friends of the Review for their ...

December 8, 2025 – “On the historic day when he finally reaches Lhasa, his journal entry begins: 'Our first care was to ...

Mathew Weitman’s debut poetry collection, The Campus Novel, is forthcoming with Tupelo Press. His work can be found in Copper ...

I’d been working at Balthazar for a few months when Debra pulled me aside to tell me they knew I’d lied on my resume. Was I ...

January 25, 2013 – “I’ve fallen in love or imagine I have; went to a party and lost my head. Bought a horse which I don’t need at all.” —Leo Tolstoy, January 25, 1851 ...

I swiveled my head then to find a deercamouflaged by the leaves no longer there“what should I do with someone’s silhouette?” ...

Anne Carson and I met on Zoom last October, in the brick-red sitting room of her apartment in Reykjavik, the city where she and her husband, Robert Currie, have spent time each year since 2008. A ...

In his last unfinished work, Reveries of the Solitary Walker, composed in the two years before his death in 1778, Jean-Jacques Rousseau set forth his vision for a writing life lived beyond the ...