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

If it hadn’t been for a philosophy classmate at the Lycée Jeanne-d’Arc, I never would have entered the municipal library. I ...

Enjambment makes music but it can be an instrument of metaphysics too. Read “it was broke / Before they made the avenue” and ...

Acting out of fear is not a way of acting that supports a sustainable future, which would require a meaningful horizon and ...

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

Wind from the northwestern quarter is lifting him high above ...

And take upon's the mystery of things. As if we were God's spies . . .

of Sedona, Arizona, with a blank book for poems. Didn't we emerge from the same prehistoric egg amid sparks of jet & obsidian embedded in the hills of Montmartre? "Only Negroes can excite Paris." ...

below and above them with pink.

mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.