Acting out of fear is not a way of acting that supports a sustainable future, which would require a meaningful horizon and ...

Hecker’s work points back to Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1876 poem L’Après-midi d’un faune—and its subsequent musical and ...

Usually, institutional libraries are governed by highly codified policies. Their catalogues are their raison d’être, elegant data structures that facilitate easy circulation and millennial continuity.

In one of Sophie Calle’s first artistic experiments, she invited twenty-seven friends, acquaintances, and strangers to sleep in her bed. She photographed them awake and asleep, secretly recording any ...

mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.

The Bean Bible is at once an apologetic for the world’s legumes and also somewhat apologetic about them. The Bible is dedicated to the author’s husband, who “never objected to endless nights of bean ...

turned impotent, and had to be divorced.

I’m tired of lying here. The mountain and the river are not bad.

Wind from the northwestern quarter is lifting him high above ...

Remember where I came from. Think of a continent of sabled czars. Leave your home. Let exile fill your mouth like the lost language of the child. Understand the reason. A man who would not wear the ...

What is your favorite crime in literature? BORI AKUNIN: "And when the woman saw chat the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant co the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she ...