From the Archives: An Oblation, by Tobias Carroll

October 31, 2026

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor and inaugural Big Other Literary...

From the Archives: Three Cities, by Dawn Raffel

September 10, 2026

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Dawn Raffel! Celebrate by reading...

Ursula K. Le Guin on Art, Language, Writing, and More

October 21, 2026

Happy birthday, Ursula K. Le Guin! Here are some quotes from the writer:   "To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them:...

Oscar Wilde on Art, Astonishment, Disobedience, and More

October 16, 2026

  Happy birthday, Oscar Wilde! Here are some quotes from the imaginative subversive:   "[A]ll sentences are sentences of death."   "A thing is, according...

Happy 70th Birthday, Lance Olsen!: 70 Reasons to Celebrate Lance Olsen

October 14, 2026

  For more than seventeen years, I’ve had the extraordinary good fortune of encountering Lance Olsen’s work and, even better, knowing the extraordinary person behind...