October 2025 – Page 2

Colossal, by Noy Holland

He liked bird dogs, with their handsome pedigrees and soft mouths. Fine heads, high strung, spots of liver, their…

Happy birthday, Oscar Wilde! Here are some quotes from the imaginative subversive: “[A]ll sentences are sentences of death.”…

Happy birthday, Italo Calvino! Here are quotes from the writer: “What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other…

Happy birthday, Michel Foucault! Here are some quotes from the philosopher and historian: “But couldn’t everyone’s life become a…

Happy birthday, Friedrich Nietzsche! Here are some quotes from the philosopher: “Is it better to out-monster the monster…

I’ve had the deep pleasure of knowing literary genius Lance Olsen for at least sixteen years now; and within…

We wharfies spend ourselves on sandwiches slick with mayo and chips as tough as baleen, a scrap of which…

Sixteen years ago, I launched Big Other, introducing it as “an online forum of iconoclasts and upstarts focusing its…

Salt from his margarita sat on his lips. A grain had wound up on his face, sitting in one…

The Religious Mood “Where does religious feeling come from? From the fact there is a world.” —Simone Weil —Beginning…