For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve contributed to our pages.

Dasho’s fine brown face, his dark eyes and long black hair, are haloed by the white glow of the sphere behind him. ‘Do you ...

Virginia Woolf once wrote that Electra, another famous Sophocles ingenue, ‘stands before us like a figure so tightly bound ...

Over the years, it evolved into a charming and slightly bizarre enclave of print media, combining the recondite trivia of an ...

William Faulkner’s drawings from his Ole Miss days are wonderfully Deco. Random House UK launches The Happy Foodie, described thusly: “Bringing cookery books to life, helping you get happy in the ...

January 28, 2016 – Horace Walpole coined the word serendipity in a letter to another Horace—Mann—dated January 28, 1754. The occasion was pretty unremarkable—it was a happy ...

January 29, 2015 – W. H. Auden was a professor at the University of Michigan for the 1941–42 academic year. His course was called Fate and the Individual in European ...

Of teaching Ulysses, Vladimir Nabokov wrote, “Instead of perpetuating the pretentious nonsense of Homeric, chromatic, and visceral chapter headings, instructors should prepare maps of Dublin with ...

January 22, 2013 – Today marks the sixtieth anniversary of the premiere of The Crucible. In this interview, Arthur Miller discusses the writing of the play, and the McCarthy ...

Our Spring Revel is April 5. In anticipation of the event, the Daily is featuring a series of posts celebrating Lydia Davis, who is being honored this year with The Paris Review ’s Hadada Award. Here, ...

Have you heard the news? Two weeks ago we launched our very own iPad/iPhone app, which features new issues, rare back issues, and archival collections—along with our complete interview series and the ...