The story of Edward the Leopard was a delicate, even ticklish, matter. Edward had once lived a life of leisure, racing ...

A sentence is hard for a sudden to spin into space. See the hand perch on to fish out on the limb so to speak?

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At the T-shirt table, Merrill greets me warmly, and we compare the T-shirt sizes, holding them up against one another. ‘Who ...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that “women were definitely not supposed to write,” in an excerpt from her Art of Poetry interview with Jessica ...

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Fish Tales, first published in 1983, is a novel told in short, vivid vignettes. A woman named Lewis comes of age hardscrabble in early sixties Detroit. It was a difficult time to be born a girl.

In 1985, a peasant named Zeng Yinglong declared his hometown in Sichuan Province an independent kingdom and proclaimed himself emperor. As a result, Zeng was charged with multiple counterrevolutionary ...