Ode to a Good Pen: A Poem About Writing the Book of Love, Read by Nick Cave

On Paul Celan’s writing between languages

The secret love life of the longfin squid

What It Means to Love Elliott Smith

Yes, its titans were bad writers, narcissists, failed artists, murderers, and Nazis — and yet, it’s okay to love literary theory

Thursday Poem

Even as a young man, Franz Rosenzweig was suspicious: "You believe you are philosophizing, but you are only writing your own biography”

20 Minutes of Exercise Is as Good as a 90-Minute Nap If You’re Sleep Deprived

Uncoding Creativity in the Age of AI: What Makes a Great Poem, What Makes a Great Storyteller, and What Makes Great Person

Wednesday Poem

The Affordability Debate Unwrapped

How to Bear Your Sorrows: Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

Poem by Jim Culleny

Sunday Poem

Tuesday Poem

Friday Poem

Fertility clinics are offering young mitochondria in controversial fertility technique

Trump’s Korean Catastrophe

HBO’s Great New Sunday Night Series Is the Spiritual Successor to Watchmen

The Moomin Strategy for Living with Uncertainty