Outside Less Outside Less
I have been outside less, I have taken to saying, in the days since my daughter was born— passive, as though it were somebody else who bore her. And bore her, I also have taken to…
Jun 17, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Natalie Shapero
June 16, 1938: Joyce Carol Oates Is Born June 16, 1938: Joyce Carol Oates Is Born
"Oates believes strongly in the authority of the individual’s experience of reality."
Jun 16, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
Delmore’s Way Delmore’s Way
How the stormy eloquence of Delmore Schwartz made possible the glittering prose of Saul Bellow.
Jun 2, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
Twin Twin
He resembled me. I held him up to my lips, then threw him into the salty water. He sank to the bottom. I heard a giggle. An invitation to play together. (Translated from the Polish by Piotr Gwiazda)
Jun 2, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Grzegorz Wróblewski
Walt Whitman Is An Insult To Art, Says 22-Year Old Henry James Walt Whitman Is An Insult To Art, Says 22-Year Old Henry James
Drum-Taps is the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.
Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Henry James
The Dream Life of Desire The Dream Life of Desire
Drawing a line between poetry and the political has never been simple.
Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
Impossible Standards Impossible Standards
The poems and a new biography of James Laughlin tells of his public success as a publisher and his private disappointments.
Mar 4, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Adam Plunkett
Our Words, Our Selves Our Words, Our Selves
Is our language broken and suddenly in need of repair?
Dec 4, 2014 / Books & the Arts / E. Ethelbert Miller
In Our Orbit: Pleasures and Predicaments In Our Orbit: Pleasures and Predicaments
In the poems of Peter Gizzi, the powers of tradition meet and mingle.
Oct 14, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Frances Richard
Transcend and Organize Transcend and Organize
Pier Paolo Pasolini was a force against the incoherence hiding in every hypocrisy.
Oct 7, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Susan Stewart