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...

John Berger on Art, History, Politics, and More

November 5, 2026

  Happy birthday, John Berger! Here are some quotes from the writer:   "The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying."  ...

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...