The PEN Ten with Dorothy Tse
"Every word becomes dangerous when words fall into a wave of social movements." More
from The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi
The pirate is the child of the man. The child of the man tells a tale. The tale entails counting. Counting relies on natural numbers. Natural numbers do not… More
The PEN Ten with Megan Abbott
"The big issues of life are explored in crime fiction because so much is laid bare there. They are about loss, guilt, survival—everything that matters." More
Not the Wedding Poem
It's hard to tell / whether the crash survivable memory units / recovered from the black box chilling / at the bottom of the sea are the tonic /… More
The PEN Ten with Mat Johnson
"The attempt to destroy ideas is almost always futile, so censorship ultimately becomes less about controlling the ideas of the text, and more about performing a public act of… More
Three Poems by Mark Levine
But I was about to say / When Chance came and cut me down with his Wehrmacht / That I was present on the assembly floor / And accountable… More
The PEN Ten with Dante Micheaux
"I do not think of myself as a writer, though I do write and often use the label for convenience: being a writer is much easier to explain than… More
Pomegranate
The cart was gaining momentum. My friend nudged me, said, "Your mother is waving," but I was biting, savoring the burst of red honey on my tongue. More
Number Six of the Eleven Calamities
Someone would ask me how I was and I would promptly answer “prose.” You’d look down at the inscription I’d written and somehow it would only say “prose.” Prose… More
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