I, Lonesome, Writing: Poems by Paul Celan
Dichten, the German word for writing poetry, literally means “to [...]
One Hundred Poems of the Dharma Gate: Spring Poems from Jakuzen’s Hōmon Hyakushu
The author of these poems, Jakuzen, a 12th century priest [...]
Getting Horace Across
When curmudgeons want to argue the intractability of poetry to [...]
Martial Music
Ezra Pound wrote epigrams. William Carlos Williams wrote epigrams. e. [...]
One Out of Two
Gloria and Constitución, the Gamal sisters, have been identical and [...]
The Complete Stories
In a letter written to her friends Ilse and Kit [...]
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Virginia Woolf once called George Eliot’s Middlemarch “one of the [...]
Livy Alive
I wasn’t quite bored. I had just completed a fourth-year [...]
The Story of a New Name
A fairy tale is in essence a tease. It thrives [...]
My Struggle, Book Two
Discussion of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle series often breaks [...]