Eli S. Evans: Is That It

Don’t we go to literature to find the logic that might displace the absurdity of our lives?

The first person to be photographed was a man having his boots cleaned. There were others in the same street, but they moved and became invisible...

This essay considers some reasons for lyric’s return in black British poetics by first taking a broad look at the field, and then by attending to the work of several poets writing since the 1990s but publishing most visibly since the millennium...

This new world of ours, structured by the internet, is unrelentingly violent, as it is inimical to human freedom and human thriving...

Tonight I walked under the stars through the snow & stopped & looked at my far sparklers & heard the voice of the wind so slight & pure & deep as if it were the sound of the stars themselves revolving...

Esbjerg is a seaport town in Denmark. In the story, it’s presented as an obscure place...

There are many social-media-savvy people who are choking on sanctimony and lacking in compassion, who can fluidly pontificate on Twitter about kindness but are unable to actually show kindness...

Well I grew up in the New Zealand of country pubs and sheep and macrocarpas; and beyond it, we were told, was a planet structured around the British Empire turning into the Commonwealth turning into... something else...

Through all those years of journal entries, Lucy Maud Montgomery was always intelligent, often funny and never boring. I wanted to know what she’d say next...

Carolyn Kizer, feminist poet and founding editor of Poetry Northwest, became the first Program Director for Literature at the National Endowment for the Arts in 1966...

If rebirth does actually happen, I will be reborn as an amoeba or a snail...

Especially for antiquarian and other independent booksellers, there exists a tension between sharing knowledge and running a business...

Whether or not The Trespasser helped Woolf shape Night and Day, there may be glints of Lawrence’s novel in To the Lighthouse...

Sons and Lovers emerged with astonishing vividness, like an island from off which the mist has suddenly lifted...

The metaphor retains the paradoxical power to unveil the truth by veiling it...

The novel is an extremely flexible form. It can come out in countless shapes, include infinite content, and end up almost any length...

Robert Walser found a context, a context of beauty for the many voices that surfaced in his awareness...

In more than two dozen languages, the words for month and moon are the same...