Soul Blind

On interrogating fear and what bats can teach about human connection.

Torrey Peters on Writing Symbols, Sex, and Strategy

The author discusses her new book, Stag Dance

The Creature

She stops to look into her mother's face. It is smooth and blank as a stone. Nothing emerges; nothing shifts.

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Soul Blind

On interrogating fear and what bats can teach about human connection.

The Creature

She stops to look into her mother's face. It is smooth and blank as a stone. Nothing emerges; nothing shifts.

Torrey Peters on Writing Symbols, Sex, and Strategy

The author discusses her new book, Stag Dance

Solitaria

“Don’t come out until I come back!”

Who Are You Close To?

I worried I had broken the chatbot by trauma-dumping, and no one, human or machine, had the capacity to console me completely.

The East is Red

If he took a shortcut, if he made the creative process any easier for himself, the magic would be lost.

Dolor

In Dolor, we had no concept of damage. Time was the closest to damage we knew.

‘What You See Is Determined By Where You Are Standing’: An Interview with Marion Turner

The author of The Wife of Bath: A Biography offers an unexpected channel into the life of one of literature’s greatest fictional characters—Alison of Bath.

Popping Up in Dreams

Are we losing our capacity for cinematic enchantment? 

How Edie Falco Made Carmela Soprano Matter

Carmela remains Falco’s most enduring on-screen alter ego, the crystallization of her mysterious genius.

‘The Limited Story of Yourself is Actually Quite Fictional’: An Interview with William Brewer

The author of The Red Arrow on West Virginia, psychedelics, and a literary education through film.

The Year in Going Home

There’s a one-sidedness to the second-generation relationship. The homeland looms large in our imagination but we don’t in theirs.