What rhythm, timbre, accent, and tone do for the spoken word, typographic design does for words printed on a page or displayed on a screen. Much as an …
What rhythm, timbre, accent, and tone do for the spoken word, typographic design does for words printed on a page or displayed on a screen. Much as an …
Disneyland’s July 17, 1955 opening-day reviews were excoriating. H.W. Mooring of the Los Angeles Tidings wrote, “Walt’s dream is a nightmare. I attende…
Disneyland’s July 17, 1955 opening-day reviews were excoriating. H.W. Mooring of the Los Angeles Tidings wrote, “Walt’s dream is a nightmare. I attende…
Writing and reading notoriously take place in solitude, and are often kind to people who welcome it, making public recognition of writing a sometimes a…
Writing and reading notoriously take place in solitude, and are often kind to people who welcome it, making public recognition of writing a sometimes a…
Statement: Mark Wunderlich Gives the National Book Award for Poetry
We thought readers might enjoy poet Mark Wunderlich’s presentation of the National Book Award in poetry last Wednesday. The great wit Max Beerbohm wrot…
Statement: Mark Wunderlich Gives the National Book Award for Poetry
We thought readers might enjoy poet Mark Wunderlich’s presentation of the National Book Award in poetry last Wednesday. The great wit Max Beerbohm wrot…
“Will you join me,” the fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Bishop asked a close friend, “in wading in the mud of the celestial gardens?” Modern literary biogra…
“Will you join me,” the fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Bishop asked a close friend, “in wading in the mud of the celestial gardens?” Modern literary biogra…
The writing of George Garrett (1929–2008), prolific and protean poet, novelist, raconteur, gadfly, and more, is probably not much remembered now, nor d…
The writing of George Garrett (1929–2008), prolific and protean poet, novelist, raconteur, gadfly, and more, is probably not much remembered now, nor d…
I have pondered a great deal over a conversation I took part in a number of years ago in one of the offices of New York University. I had lived away fr…
I have pondered a great deal over a conversation I took part in a number of years ago in one of the offices of New York University. I had lived away fr…
In a way the place of an English-language bookstore in a non-English-speaking country is a kind of paradigm for the lot of bookstores everywhere. A sho…
In a way the place of an English-language bookstore in a non-English-speaking country is a kind of paradigm for the lot of bookstores everywhere. A sho…
Despite its swaggering title and militant red and black cover, Caleb Crain’s Overthrow does not document a revolution. On the contrary, it warns of the…
Despite its swaggering title and militant red and black cover, Caleb Crain’s Overthrow does not document a revolution. On the contrary, it warns of the…
“In the chowder are warmed the essences of Chile,” Pablo Neruda Every writer who tells stories through food satisfies a particular appetite in a reader…
“In the chowder are warmed the essences of Chile,” Pablo Neruda Every writer who tells stories through food satisfies a particular appetite in a reader…
Gabriel García Márquez was for us, standard young Latin American literati, some sort of force of nature. He was like China: too big, too rich, too opaq…
Gabriel García Márquez was for us, standard young Latin American literati, some sort of force of nature. He was like China: too big, too rich, too opaq…
Twisting fairy stories has been a feminist stratagem ever since Anne Sexton wrote her sequence of barbed, hurt poems, Transformations, back in 1971; Ma…
Twisting fairy stories has been a feminist stratagem ever since Anne Sexton wrote her sequence of barbed, hurt poems, Transformations, back in 1971; Ma…
