New books from Leonora Carrington, Michael Clune, John Gregory Dunne, Marlen Haushofer, Eloghosa Osunde, and Gary Shteyngart.

All this is bigger than ghazals, of course. Bigger than haiku. I’m saying we have to graduate from pastiche and mimicry to ...

From Even Strange Ghosts Can be Shared: The Collected Letters of Jack Spicer , edited by Kevin Killian, Kelly Holt, and ...

The astronauts who planted their feet on the moon were outfitted in the same glaring white as a wedding dress.” ...

It’s a good time to investigate the paradoxes and special strangeness of Andy Kaufman and Paul Reubens, oddly alike in some ...

My new job came with a research stipend. I’d never had one before—a few grand that would renew each year for five years and then end. What could I use it for? “Anything,” I was told, which seemed ...

The world’s first screen saver was not like a dream at all. It was a blank screen. It was called SCRNSAVE, and when it was released in 1983 it was very exciting to a niche audience. It was like John ...

I was fortunate to have traveled America’s blue highways in the golden age of roadside attractions. The year I fell in love with roadside attractions was 1971, when my husband, Michael, and I (newly ...

March 24, 2025 – “Many years ago, the first and only time I ever did acid, I looked down at my hands and noticed that they were not, in fact, “flesh-colored” after all, but contained dozens of colors: ...

Though he is most often associated with New England, Robert Frost (1874–1963) was born in San Francisco. He dropped out of both Dartmouth and Harvard, taught school like his mother did before him, and ...

I first met JB during the Colorado River Water Users Association conference—affectionately called CRWUA (pronounced “crew-uh”)—at the Paris Casino in Las Vegas last December. It was, at first glance, ...

In early March, a new production of Moby-Dick will open at the Metropolitan Opera.In some ways, Moby-Dick already has everything an opera needs: narrative drama, memorable characters, high stakes, and ...