Death of Art
In 1925 Viktor Shklovsky, the Russian writer, literary theorist, political [...]
South and West: From a Notebook
In times of exceptional social and political stress, we turn [...]
Secret Histories: On Shirley Jackson
On June 27, 1948, Shirley Jackson published “The Lottery” in [...]
“Like Wings Unfolding in the Body”: Eleven New Poets
The intelligence and accomplishment of each year’s crop of debut [...]
You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin
One of the more interesting psychological approaches to close relationships [...]
Through the Ivory Gate
Seamus Heaney introduced his translation of Beowulf with these words: [...]
The Accidental Life: An Editor’s Notes on Writing and Writers
Since the 1970s, Terry McDonell has been a prominent editor, [...]
The Auction of the Mind: Editing Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson’s poetry explores the relationship between the temporal world [...]
The Abundance
The worlds of fiction and nonfiction tend to be considered [...]
Manatees
By late January the manatees have swum up the St. [...]