For a brief period in the 1960s, the Afro-Brazilian author of the memoir “Child of the Dark” was one of the most well-known writers in the world.
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Remembering the Things That Remain
A Polish artist invites a journalist to dig into disturbing remnants from the Holocaust that Poland would rather keep buried.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Fiction, Story
If Only There Were Someone Who Would Listen
Dror Burstein’s “Muck” sets a difficult course through themes of power, pita bread, and invasion, mixing up the biblical past and the just-as-lamentable present.
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
Protecting Your Writing Time In This Weird Time of Ours
Poet Patricia Lockwood offers ideas on how to keep writing in the unstable, toxic, distracting times we live in.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Can Kevin Young Make Poetry Matter Again?
For Esquire, Robert P. Baird talks to Kevin Young, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the recently appointed poetry editor at the New Yorker about the future of poetry.
Posted inBooks, Design, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
The Ancient Waterways of Phoenix, Arizona
To understand this sprawling desert city, you have to understand its canals, whose routes Indigenous people dug as far back as A.D. 200.
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Nonfiction, Story
Remembering Ken Nordine
The ambitious radio personality created his own form of expression, called “word jazz,” to properly accomodate his musical voice and artistic ambitions.
Posted inQuotes
Kevin Young Is Ready to Engage the Public with Poetry
The new poetry editor of the New Yorker says that to find poetry, “you have to look in your backyard.”
Posted inNonfiction
Where Am I?
After a lifetime of alienation, one woman discovered how her spacial disorientation could be a gift that connected her to strangers and made her less alone.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story
Running Dysmorphic
On competitive running, exactness, and finding permission to be myself.
