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Ursula K. Le Guin on Art, Language, Writing, and More

Happy birthday, Ursula K. Le Guin! Here are some quotes from the writer: “To learn which questions are unanswerable,…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Rick Moody! Celebrate by reading these Moody texts we published in 2025! Censored Haiku…

Happy birthday, Oscar Wilde! Here are some quotes from the imaginative subversive: “[A]ll sentences are sentences of death.”…

For more than seventeen years, I’ve had the extraordinary good fortune of encountering Lance Olsen’s work and, even better,…

What’s seventeen years in internet years? Four thousand platform migrations, twelve dead social networks, three algorithmic regime changes, and…

“Cinema plus psychoanalysis equals the science of ghosts.” —Jacques Derrida “Ghosts are not evil things to be feared or fought,…

With beautiful skin, a foreign language of skin, a surface heretofore unknown and pliant— Oh, I am pursuing…

In the Shed of Lachrymose fester-squall cumuli accumulate dirge-dusk dark dampen tremor wart scaffold vamp troughs lousy with disconsolate…

By Elijah Sparkman Peter Markus lives downriver. I live in Hamtramck, MI. Sometimes we meet in the middle and…

Happy birthday, Wallace Stevens!