Category: Excerpts

The Archive’s Main Entrance

The Archive’s Main Entrance

June 27, 2024

Alan Mikhail— Between the street and the building was a large black wrought-iron fence. On the inside of this one of Egypt’s millions of border markers, two paths led into… READ MORE

Richard Siken’s Poems of Obsession and Love

Richard Siken’s Poems of Obsession and Love

June 21, 2024

Selected by Nobel Prize laureate and competition judge Louise Glück as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, Richard Siken’s Crush is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and… READ MORE

The Puzzle of Roe v. Wade

The Puzzle of Roe v. Wade

June 14, 2024

It may be a bit of mystery why we care so much about Roe. The Court has issued other blockbuster opinions, and they have mostly faded into obscurity. Debates about… READ MORE

Memories of Chevreuse

Memories of Chevreuse

May 17, 2024

Patrick Modiano— Leaving Chevreuse, there’s a bend in the road, then a narrow tree-lined highway. After a few miles, the entrance to a village, and soon you were running alongside… READ MORE

Where Life Is, Hope Can Survive

Where Life Is, Hope Can Survive

May 9, 2024

It needs to be said that, unlike some more recent cultures, the joy-loving and disarmingly honest ancient Greeks did not believe that suffering ennobled, educated, or improved the character of… READ MORE

Between Memory and History

Between Memory and History

April 26, 2024

Ward Toward is the 118th volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets, in which Cindy Juyoung Ok moves assuredly between spaces—from the psych ward to a prison cell, from… READ MORE

The Elusive Archive

The Elusive Archive

April 23, 2024

Despina Stratigakos— How I wish this book had existed when I was a student pursuing the fugitive histories of women architects! In the 1990s publications on women in architecture were… READ MORE

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