Articles

Bianca Stone’s new collection is an unflinching portrait of motherhood and the grief of her family’s famed matriarch. 

John Keene's career-spanning new collection, Punks, is a shapeshifting inquiry into race, class, and sex. 

Our understanding of John Milton's life and work has been scattered throughout the centuries. An inventive new biography seeks to make him whole.

A reading list of our 2021 features.

Erin Taylor's Bimboland reads like the diary of someone grappling with sex, feminism, and life online.

Assia Wevill is remembered as the mistress who came between Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Was she more than that?

Notes on Charles Baudelaire.

Paul Auster's new biography is a monumental account of Stephen Crane—a writer whose life, and work, remain enigmatic.

A new compilation of Jack Spicer’s uncollected work deepens our understanding of the seminal cult poet.

Steven Reigns’s documentary poetics point to the vexed relation between the poetry of the ongoing HIV/AIDS crisis and the official record.