2025 – Page 2 – BIG OTHER

When No One Was Sure About the World, by Yi Zhou

Translated from the Chinese by Chen Zeping and Karen Gernant I actually got together with Ginger when the pandemic…

Translated from the Chinese by Chen Zeping and Karen Gernant One morning last spring, my father fed the chickens…

Happy birthday, Rainer Maria Rilke! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Let everything happen to you: beauty…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Elizabeth Robinson! Celebrate by reading “Rift,” which we published in 2024! And then read Robinson’s…

Dear Reader, Art, artists, and arts organizations are under attack. Under the guise of cutting government spending, some of the…

Happy birthday, George Saunders! 67, today! Here are some quotes from Saunders’s writing: “Stay open, forever, so open it…

Happy birthday, Guy Davenport! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Art is always the replacement of indifference…

Happy birthday, Paul Celan! Here are some quotes from the author. “Poetry is a sort of homecoming.” …

Happy birthday, George Eliot! Here are some quotes from the author’s books: “My own experience and development deepen everyday…

Happy birthday, Don DeLillo, maestro of maestros! 89, today! Meeting and speaking (three times!) with Don DeLillo at International…