Edward Gorey (1925–2000) was born in Chicago. He studied briefly at the Art Institute of Chicago, spent three years in the ...

I’m tired of lying here. The mountain and the river are not bad.

a walk with Thomas Mann . . . .

GERALD MURNANE WITH HIS WIFE, CATHERINE, IN BENDIGO, 1989.

"Come with me, and I will show you a beautiful bed. " And St. Francis led her to a large fire.

of Sedona, Arizona, with a blank book for poems. Didn't we emerge from the same prehistoric egg amid sparks of jet & obsidian embedded in the hills of Montmartre? "Only Negroes can excite Paris." ...

In his photographic sequences, Duane Michals has expanded the possibilities of his medium. While most photo- graphs deal with static appearances, Michals' depend on trans- formations and ...

I want to live a beautiful life but I can’t help but notice there is something fundamentally disgusting about it all.” ...

Extracts from new books by Antonio diBenedetto, Peter Szendy, Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel, Saidiya Hartman, and Lyndsy ...