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Announcing Big Other’s 2021 Lifetime Achievement Awardees!

We are delighted to announce Big Other‘s 2021 Lifetime Achievement Awardees! The award honors exemplary living writers, who have…

By Kristin Dykstra One morning in late November, 1799, Samuel Taylor Coleridge watched the sun rise. Then a mass…

Hard as things are, despair is easy. Don’t get me wrong; the state of things, the order of things,…

By Tony Trigilio It’s early-autumn 1993 and I’ve just sat down for an office-hour appointment with my Northeastern University…

OH YOU PRETTY THINGS Humming something that came to him in red dreams, he considers, mid-shave, this man suddenly…

We are pleased to nominate the following writing published in Big Other in 2021 for the Pushcart Prize: Sarah…

Wear Away Light makes light; day makes day. The endless panting of the dog owes nothing to heat or…

The Descent of Louise Brooks Matches My Mood all the way back to the sad thirties westerns the progressive…

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

By Ted Morrissey Like many (most?) American readers, I came to Vladimir Nabokov via Lolita, the controversial novel that…