I met a devil at the crossroads. We struck no bargain but walked, arm in arm, westward, for slow miles as starlings flocked. It steadied me, and little by

The correspondence of Guy Davenport is a syllabus for the twentieth century.

Mason Bates’s operatic adaptation of Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay condenses the encyclopedic novel into a story about two outsiders caught between the harsh reality of...

The bear came to me. I did not ask. I did not want.

Mom says it won’t take long. Dad stares at cracked acorns on the ground. I do not belong here. The line is too long to stand out, too short to disappear. Everything smells like old birdseed. Even the...

and we pour bag after bag of leaves on the lawn

the bottom of the ocean could well be the place for the body's eternal sleep

The kitchen of my past smells of carne adovada and green chiles blackened on the comal.

In this PEN Ten interview, Wen-yi Lee Lee highlights the parallels between sworn gang families and queer found families.

In “Heart the Lover”, Lily King transforms the campus novel into a complicated triangle of love, loss, and friendship

In "Vampires at Sea," Lindsay Merbaum turns a floating party into a smutty, blood-slick carnival of danger and desire

Utah just quietly banned THIRTEEN REASONS WHY from all public schools across the state. It's their 19th state-sanctioned book ban.

Winston-Salem, North Carolina-based artist Carrie Hart, or c hart, spotlights LGBTQ+ stories through zines.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 was awarded to László Krasznahorkai "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art"

I named my daughter after Lyra, his intrepid protagonist. Now, in the final installment of the blockbuster fantasy saga, we get to see how she turned out.