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To Care or Not to Care: An Interview with Boris Groys

By JC Holburn As the invasion began in Ukraine and all manner of opinions gushed in, I kept wondering— “What…

Or, Epic Outtakes from The Maze of Transparencies: Penelope and Ulysses, a Virtual Love Story By Karen An-hwei Lee …

Excursus (1) More houses greet daylight as it careens off course and enters wherever it can from east/each …

In memory of Binyavanga Wainaina, Randall Kenan, and Greg Tate Jeffery Renard Allen: I’d like to hear your thoughts…

Pantoum (for Fuad) Summer at the solstice unburies its bloodlust before a story of loss contradicts a memory and…

Rügen Island, Day Trip The Baltic Sea We went looking where you had never been where water kept us in…

We are excited to announce the finalists for the 2021 Big Other Book Award for Fiction. The winner will be…

In my recent correspondence with translator par excellence Suzanne Jill Levine, she wrote: We who love books are all happy…

How I Wrote Certain of My Books I met the poet before he disappeared The timeline of events doesn’t…

Every day is World Poetry Day! Happy World Poetry Day! And there is no world without poetry, at least not…