2026 – Page 11 – BIG OTHER

From the Archives: Centralia Mine Fire, by Sarah Blackman

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Sarah Blackman! Celebrate by reading this Blackman fiction we published in 2021! Following that, read…

Here in the snow, in the woods, there is black, there is white, and endless shades between, but none…

Happy birthday, David Foster Wallace! Here are some quotes from the writer: “The truth will set you free. But…

Happy birthday, Anaïs Nin! Here are some quotes from the writer: “The role of the writer is not…

Happy birthday, Audre Lorde! Here are some quotes from the writer: “For the master’s tools will never dismantle the…

How to Love a Mango Girl Crack open her chestwall with surgical loveliness, remove the slippery, heaving Thing inside,…

Happy birthday, Gordon Lish! 92, today! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Do not confine your work to…

Happy birthday, Gerhard Richter! 94, today! Here are some quotes from the artist: “Art is the highest form of…

To a Slide of The Temptation of Eve in a Lecture on Medieval Art I was twenty when I…

“how all Eternity proceeds from Time alone…” And time refuses to be anything less than its own overgrown ecosystem.…