There were dance studios and barre studios and running clubs and cryotherapy spas and local YMCA chapters and kickboxing ...

On the basketball court with the teens, I was touched by a terrifying time-suspension—an encounter immune from the numbing ...

Think of a seashell. Don’t think of a conch. In fact, forget, for now, about univalve mollusks entirely. Think of Shell, the ...

It’s the tail end of January, the month of resolutions made and broken, gym memberships purchased and fitness classes left ...

Tadeusz Dąbrowski on stage at the Shakespeare Theatre in Gdansk, Poland.

Before the sweat, before the bench press, before the sauna, before the shower, before placing my hand around a man, inside a man, around his throat so desperate for my hand, I take off my ring. While ...

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

This piece is fictional, and intended purely as a parody. It is not intended to communicate any true or factual information, and is for entertainment purposes only. Barbecues, mainly. And this is part ...

Pakay’s photographs of Baldwin are currently on view in Turkey Saved My Life: Baldwin in Istanbul, 1961–1971, an exhibition ...

"Come with me, and I will show you a beautiful bed. " And St. Francis led her to a large fire.

It must have been clear, as John Broderick wrote his first novel, The Pilgrimage, that it would be banned by the Irish censorship board. (This was almost a badge of honor at the time for Irish writers ...

And wylde for to hold, though I seme tame. W.S. MERWIN: I think this is probably the greatest sonnet Wyatt wrote, and I think it's one of the greatest sonnets in English. I've known it for so many ...