When people see your truck, they tend to see what you can do for them.

In Lapoujade’s description, the worlds Dick constructs are always on the point of collapsing, precisely because they are ...

From his upper lip a deeply etched wrinkle descends on either side of his mouth to his chin, which seems to swell and is ...

From Selected Amazon Reviews, to be published by Semiotext (e) this month.

I love density. Compression is nuclear. Big family, small house—no room (Jeezy). Used to act up when I went to school—thought it was cool, but I really was hurt (Meek Mill). Free Gaza, we on the ...

Remember where I came from. Think of a continent of sabled czars. Leave your home. Let exile fill your mouth like the lost language of the child. Understand the reason. A man who would not wear the ...

turned impotent, and had to be divorced. The nineteenth century, for all its love ...

We travel to Lake Clark, Alaska, in a four-seater prop plane—my partner and I, the pilot, and the housekeeper for the residency where we’ll be staying. When asked which seat he wants, the housekeeper ...

In 1985, a peasant named Zeng Yinglong declared his hometown in Sichuan Province an independent kingdom and proclaimed himself emperor. As a result, Zeng was charged with multiple counterrevolutionary ...

Wind from the northwestern quarter is lifting him high above ...

Wrought on you by surprise.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that “women were definitely not supposed to write,” in an excerpt from her Art of Poetry interview with Jessica ...