And you shall make its pots to remove its ashes, and its shovels and its sprinkling basins and its flesh hooks and its scoops; you shall make all its implements of copper. ~Exodus 27:3 I appreciate a ...

The Bible teaches us, says Matthew Mullins, but its method of teaching always entails more than information and guidance. The Bible has much to say about its own purpose and authority. Among the most ...

Edward Vidaurre’s “Instructions” reminds us of the games we play with our minds to get through hard times, laddering down — then conjuring amends — to calm our own restlessness. His jazzy rhythms and ...

Hieu Minh Nguyen‘s poems travel through time. Nguyen, a Minneapolis-based poet who writes on race, queerness and history, dove into the past with “White Boy Time Machine: Instruction Manual.” The ...

Last spring, a dozen members of the Worker Writers School workshopped a poem titled “Instruction Manual.” The group meets monthly from September to May in the offices of PEN America, a literary ...

And you shall make the courtyard of the Mishkan on the southern side [there shall be] hangings for the courtyard of twisted fine linen, one hundred cubits long on one side. ~ Exodus 27:9 The Ikea-like ...