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In this courtroom sketch, Sean “Diddy” Combs reacts after he was convicted of prostitution-related offenses but acquitted of ...
August 6, 2025 – "Greene's work keeps one’s mind on tiptoe. Illusions beget disillusions but also hopes; hopes beget ...
From The Old Man by the Sea by Domenico Starnone (Europa Editions), translated from the Italian by Oonagh Stransky: ...
Really playing a character is about a lot more than whether you have to take your shirt off. Sometimes you do, sometimes you ...
Marguerite Duras was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Her breakthrough international success came with The Lover ...
The story refers to the twins’ father’s participation in “the Slaughter, when all animal life was being extinguished by guns ...
My problems started much earlier than the night before deadline—they started in my childhood, when I completely failed to learn Russian, and though an inability to function in a writer’s original ...
July 17, 2025 – “My mamaw used to say, ‘I thought life was just one damned thing after another until I realized it’s the same damned thing over and over.’ ” ...
For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Eugene Ostashevsky’s “ Falling Sonnet XI ” appears in our new Summer issue, no.
Seven or eight years ago, a friend showed me a tatty packet of odd papers he’d picked up for six pounds at a sale. It looked just like it does in this picture. Most of the papers are an English ...
July 7, 2025 – “It seems certain to me that, on the same walk, two beings, unless they resemble each other in some strange sense, could not possibly pick up the same stones.” ...
January 31, 2025 – “There were dance studios and barre studios and running clubs and cryotherapy spas and local YMCA chapters and kickboxing classes and MMA classes and climbing gyms and pole-dancing ...