August 2022 – BIG OTHER

From the Archives: However Many Sayings to Live and Die By, by Robert Lopez

Happy birthday, Robert Lopez! Celebrate by reading Lopez’s “However Many Sayings to Live and Die By,” which we published in…

Ombré How strange I thought the word “ombré” in the middle of the night, stumbling in a small pink bathroom…

Happy birthday, Julio Cortázar! Here are some quotes from the writer: “‘What good is a writer if he…

By Jeffery Renard Allen In an illuminating essay written not long before his death, the celebrated German novelist W.…

Happy birthday, Jorge Luis Borges! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Reality is not always probable, or…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Michael Martone! Celebrate by reading these five Martone nonfictions, which we published earlier this year!…

Happy birthday, Annie Proulx! 87, today! Here are some quotes from the writer: “I read omnivorously, I always…

Happy birthday, James Baldwin! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Artists are here to disturb the peace.”…