William Charles Anthony Frerichs, Ice Skating (1869), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. In Stockholm it didn’t snow on ...

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

gave me. I cared for it faithfully, ...

The character of Stefan Mihal has functioned partly as a red herring and partly as a doppelganger for photographer Michals. His name derives from Michals’ middle and last names in their original Czech ...

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

mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.

In France, the public library is a revolutionary inheritance in quite a literal sense. At the end of the eighteenth century, thousands of books and manuscripts were seized from nobles, convents, and ...

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You wonder who in the world are the people who actually use stool cards. They’re the very same scum who sell drugs to little kids in school yards.

To coax pale horses from the edge of a wet, blue field.

The following short story by Yukio Mishima (1925–1970), newly translated by John Nathan, was first published in the June 1965 issue of Nihon (Japan) magazine. That morning, for the first time in a ...