William Charles Anthony Frerichs, Ice Skating (1869), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. In Stockholm it didn’t snow on Christmas or New Year’s Eve or at the beginning of January. The days were ...

This essay originally appeared in La Bibliothèque de Rouen: 200 ans d’histoire (s), edited by Marie-Françoise Rose. Annie ...

The following short story by Yukio Mishima (1925–1970), newly translated by John Nathan, was first published in the June 1965 ...

mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.

begets cruelty, and, before long, one would have to chop off one's own hand to end the source of self-torture. Yet, we ...

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

In my novels and memoirs I have written quite a bit about sex, even very outré sex. I’ve always insisted that I’ve approached sex as a realist, not as a pornographer. That is, I like to represent what ...

One more year has passed: the humanoid robots are coming, my taxi has no driver (not even a metaphor), and ChatGPT tells me “there is hope even in the most hopeless times.” In our unreal reality, I’m ...

Saint, terrorist, fishwife. Stench that appals. Famines, machine guns, the Great Plague (your sickness), Rending of garments, cries, mass burials. I'd watched my beard sprout in the mirror's grave.