November 2017
Ecstasy and Turmoil
Boris Pasternak is best known for writing Doctor Zhivago, a novel which documents these years of national upheaval through the eyes of a poet...
Read MoreThe Shape of an Egg by Amy Glynn
Our first Christmas together, I was 39 weeks pregnant. He let me drag a seven-foot fir tree up the stairs to the flat and sat on the couch with a beer...
Read MoreVirginia Woolf on Dorothy Osborne
Our early literature owes something of its magnificence to the fact that writing was an uncommon art, practised, rather for fame than for money...
Read MoreA wandering, restless existence…
To work in academe is to live at an angle slightly askew to the regular run of American life.
Read MoreLudwig II’s Neuschwanstein remains perhaps the world’s greatest work of fan art…
No cars are permitted to drive the path that winds up the mountain. In fair weather, as now in late April, buses and horse-drawn carriages...
Read MoreInstagramm’d Nevertheless
While touring England’s Lake District, poet Thomas Gray suffered what we might call a selfie-induced injury.
Read MoreEverything Glowed With a Gleam
In Hardy’s “The Self-Unseeing,” he visits the remains of his childhood home and recalls where the door was, how the floor felt, how his mother sat...
Read MoreJoe Linker on Jessica Sequeira
by Joe Linker Rhombus and Oval, by Jessica Sequeira, What Books Press, 117 pp. “Rhombus and Oval” is the title of the lead piece in this collection of stories by Jessica Sequeira, a translator of Spanish and French, and a writer. The text of twenty-one stories runs 112 pages, each...
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The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
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The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
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I spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
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The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
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The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
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I spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
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