It turns out that for Ashbery, the big theory was psychoanalysis, the process by which secondhand knowledge becomes firsthand ...

The Guide is either the train hopper’s Bible or an outdated relic, a must-have or a crutch, depending on whom you ask.” ...

The guidance counselor was my driver’s ed teacher. He liked to talk about football. He didn’t guide me much on driving. I angled the car into the school lot. We never practiced parallel parking.

“Restaurants will break your heart” is something that I often hear myself saying. It has become a mantra. When did I start saying it, I wonder. Maybe it was when I first discovered the criss-crossed ...

On the night of July 24, 1927, Ryunosuke Akutagawa swallowed a lethal amount of Veronal, slipped onto a futon beside his wife, and fell asleep reading the Bible. The writer was thirty-five years old.

through the café-window créped in powder-smoke? The bill for the new farce reads Sleepers Awake.

Wrought on you by surprise.

And wylde for to hold, though I seme tame. W.S. MERWIN: I think this is probably the greatest sonnet Wyatt wrote, and I think it's one of the greatest sonnets in English. I've known it for so many ...

I’m tired of lying here. The mountain and the river are not bad.

The guidance counselor was my driver’s ed teacher. He liked to talk about football. He didn’t guide me much on driving. I angled the car into the school lot. We never practiced parallel parking.

mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.

Fifty years later, we look back at the student-led protests that shook Paris in May 1968 and have occupied the French political imagination ever since. The events of May 1968 in France emerged ...