E. Ravel, from Die Gartenlaube, 1891.

Our new Winter issue is here. Learn more about its cover, which features a photograph from Marc Yankus.

“Art isn’t always what—or where—you expect to find it.” Nicole Rudicklooks at art ephemera.

Walter Benjaminused to write a radio show for children—here he tells a story with thirty brainteasers. (We’ll post the answers on Thursday.)

“I think poetry is always one or two poets away from extinction.” Michael Hofmann and Jack Livings talk about poetry, translation, and Vespas.

An interview with Julia Wertzabout her online comic, Fart Party, now collected in a new book, The Museum of Mistakes. “I’m a real bitch in my work. No one likes a happy-go-lucky character—that’s the character everyone wants to see destroyed.”

Twenty-five years after Wild at Heart, Barry Gifford’s novels are still weird on top.

Two centuries after the Marquis de Sade, a French exhibition traces his influence. 

Plus, Sadie Steinsees how far a full-page ad in The New York Timesgoes; and Joseph Conradthinks the world is plenty mysterious enough as it is, thanks.