Samuel Delany

From the Archives: Reading Díaz, by Samuel R. Delany

Today is Samuel R. Delany’s birthday. Celebrate by reading this Delany essay we published April 5, 2019! With…

“The femur is the longest and strongest bone in the human body.” Here’s a sentence from Gray‘s Anatomy that my…

“The Big One was obviously one of those epoxy-and-metal eggs produced by itself—the Platonic Idea of a pebble turned inside…

With time and tempests everywhere To rafts of frail assumption cling The saintly and the insincere; Enraged phenomena bear down…

If one tried to construct the Temple of Literature from only the fifty “pillars” below, it would collapse spectacularly. Nevertheless,…