The Wishing Well, Summer 1979. All images reproduced with permission of the Lesbian Herstory Archives.

In Trona, they’ve been playing on the country's only dirt football field for more than eighty years, and they’ve been living ...

Write a story in which the narrator refuses to tell the story. Permit the narrator to come close to telling the story—perhaps ...

I was trying to get down to the root where consciousness springs up under pressure from conflict and pain and power.” ...

Reading his Paris Review interview, you sense that Buckley was more keen to discuss fiction than most people were to ask him ...

Most people, especially New Yorkers, who are proud of their tap water, mock my interest in mineral water; to them, “all water tastes the same.” I disagree. When I was little, my mom would send me to ...

“I’d been angry for a while, and confused about what to do, and as soon as I was decided, I felt a relief,” Alice Oswald told Rachael Allen in our Art of Poetry interview in the new Winter issue.

The following fragment, which dates to 1969, was unearthed in the archives of John and Anya Berger by their daughter, Katya, and John’s biographer, Tom Overton. Read more about its history and their ...

This year, we asked our contributors, our readers, our current and former interns, and other friends of the Review for their favorite books of the past year. Here’s what they said. Service by John ...

Virginia Woolf was fascinated by biographical writing, even though she considered it something of a doomed genre. She wrote traditional and imagined biographies, of people and dogs, that experiment ...

Revisited is a series in which writers go back to a work of art they first encountered long ago. Here, Jen George remembers ‘Thérèse Dreaming’.

My new job came with a research stipend. I’d never had one before—a few grand that would renew each year for five years and then end. What could I use it for? “Anything,” I was told, which seemed ...