• A Call to Action: Support Independent Publishing Today

    The Goldhirsh Foundation and an anonymous donor have generously offered us $75,000 in matching grants. To receive the $75,000, we need …

    Taking the Edge Off in Troubled Times: Healthy Habits for Conscientious Cadres

    By Austin Dean It can’t be much fun to be a Chinese Communist Party official these days. On the one …

    Phil Klay’s Redeployment Wins National Book Award for Fiction

    Congratulations to Phil Klay, who was recently announced as the winner of the National Book Award for fiction for his …

    Our Deep Springs Syllabus

    Today’s post was originally published on LARB Channel Avidly.  By Sarah Mesle and Sarah Blackwood AMERICAN ENCOUNTERS Drs. Sarahs Office Hours: 9-midnight …

    This Week’s Triptych Artist: Otto Schubert

    Otto Schubert is one of several soldier artists profiled in Postcards from the Trenches, a new traveling exhibit of art …

    Clockshop Cheap Talk Conversation Series

    Editor’s Note: Below is information about an upcoming conversation series run by Clockshop.  Cheap Talk is a conversation series where …

    Diary of a Summit: Thoughts on Life in Beijing During the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum

    By Mengfei Chen Last week, China’s President Xi Jinping hosted the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Beijing. For Xi, …

    This Week’s Triptych Artist: D.E. May

    Time is important to D.E. May. His work resembles found objects and documents for some long-ago half-completed project. It is …

    ON WAITING AND SUGAR

    Photo: Awaiting Kara Walker’s “A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby” (June 2014)  By Magdalena Edwards “Waiting too long poisons …

    Blacktop Ecologies

    Blacktop Ecologies: Los Angeles Poetry and Poetics is a one-day symposium of writers active in Los Angeles today. Though largely …