The Book of Emma Reyes
The Book of Emma Reyes found its translator, Daniel Alarcón, [...]
Down and Dirty: Translations of Catullus
Once upon a time in a state far, far away—Indiana—a [...]
Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire
In June 1959, Elizabeth Hardwick wrote to Allen Tate about [...]
With a Cuban song in the heart
In 1961, with his parents and sister, a sixteen-year-old Iván [...]
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
The writer Hisham Matar has spent most of his adult [...]
The Dark Space Around It
We lived in one half of Sarah’s 150-year-old farmhouse. When [...]
Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited
Just when it seems that nothing further can be said [...]
Slight Exaggeration
In Slight Exaggeration, Adam Zagajewski, the most prominent living Polish [...]
Rumi’s Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love
Many would find it surprising that a thirteenth-century Sufi mystic [...]
How to Walk an Invisible Dog
Start with suitable footwear. A good walking shoe is best, [...]