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

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 ...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that “women were definitely not supposed to write,” in an excerpt from her Art of Poetry interview with Jessica ...

It was only a Daisy, the kind sold by coupon off the backs of comic books: Gee Dad it’s a Daisy! He grins up at his father from the package where—cradled like Jesus—lies the gun.

turned impotent, and had to be divorced. The nineteenth century, for all its love ...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that “women were definitely not supposed to write,” in an excerpt from her Art of Poetry interview with Jessica ...

settled in heaven from South.

To coax pale horses from the edge of a wet, blue field.

useless, untender absences with bronze torsos.

Now she is gone. Now I encounter her body.

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