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

begets cruelty, and, before long, one would have to chop off one's own hand to end the source of self-torture. Yet, we ...

I first encountered Rita Dove in Essence magazine, where I learned that she’d won the 1987 Pulitzer for her book Thomas and Beulah (1986)—the first Black poet to be so awarded since Gwendolyn Brooks ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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