What a sensible idea of Ashbery’s, I thought, and modest—to direct attention away from himself. It also worked to his own benefit; he was more interested in exploring these other poets and ...

Tens of thousands of Vietnamese refugees settled in Toronto in the Eighties, and word spread among them that worm picking was a sure way to make money, albeit a punishing one. Pickers ruin their knees ...

W hen Frankenthaler was visiting Spain in 1953, her friend Sonya Rudikoff wrote to her and asked for her impressions of political life under Franco. She did not answer the question. “She had more ...

I ’m scrolling through terrible images on the internet the way James Baldwin describes browsing on a television some mornings before getting out of bed, switching from channel to channel restlessly, ...

Discussed in this essay: Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1, by Karl Marx. Edited by Paul North and Paul Reitter. Translated by Paul Reitter. Princeton University Press. 944 pages.

Cymbidium Lowianum, a color lithograph by Joseph Mansell, after a painting by Henry George Moon from Reichenbachia: Orchids Illustrated and Described, Second Series, Vol. 2, Tab 53, c. 1888–94, by ...

Future-proofing the American workerListen to an audio version of this article. I am sitting in a bland conference room in Midtown Manhattan with twenty-nine so-called business professionals, and one ...

Katie Kitamura’s anti-expressive fictionDiscussed in this essay: Audition, by Katie Kitamura. Riverhead Books. 208 pages. $28. O ne third of the way into Katie Kitamura’s 2017 novel, A Separation, its ...

Trump’s second attempt at dismantling the bureaucracyF ive months after Donald Trump moved into the White House in 2017, a reporter asked Vladimir Putin about the allegations that Russia had ...

From an introduction to the audiobook edition of J. F. Martel’s Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, which was released in May by Hachette Audio. T oward the end of the nineteenth century, the ...

The Twisted City, an illustration by Timothy Kelly. The artwork depicts a character of Kelly’s invention, “The Weaver,” in the Northern Limit, an unfinished level discarded early in the development of ...