William Charles Anthony Frerichs, Ice Skating (1869), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. In Stockholm it didn’t snow on Christmas or New Year’s Eve or at the beginning of January. The days were ...

The following short story by Yukio Mishima (1925–1970), newly translated by John Nathan, was first published in the June 1965 ...

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

You wonder who in the world are the people who actually use stool cards. They’re the very same scum who sell drugs to little kids in school yards.

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." ...

mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.

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 ...

One more year has passed: the humanoid robots are coming, my taxi has no driver (not even a metaphor), and ChatGPT tells me “there is hope even in the most hopeless times.” In our unreal reality, I’m ...

In Stockholm it didn’t snow on Christmas or New Year’s Eve or at the beginning of January. The days were gray and, in the afternoon, just before it got completely dark, there was often a dank glow ...

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