Sophie Calle is an artist, writer, photographer, filmmaker, and performer whose work often makes use of Oulipian constraints.

At ten, I wake him up by taking a photo. I bring him his coffee. I forgot the pain au chocolat and disregarded the newspaper.

When people see your truck, they tend to see what you can do for them.

In Lapoujade’s description, the worlds Dick constructs are always on the point of collapsing, precisely because they are ...

From his upper lip a deeply etched wrinkle descends on either side of his mouth to his chin, which seems to swell and is ...

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 ...

Through the gilt palm fronds of rue Messaline.

mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.

turned impotent, and had to be divorced.

Remember where I came from. Think of a continent of sabled czars. Leave your home. Let exile fill your mouth like the lost language of the child. Understand the reason. A man who would not wear the ...