Berfrois

Love

‘An initiation in infinitude was the gift Dickinson offered to the few she admitted to intimacy…’

Vis and Ramin/Tristan and Iseult: is there a direct connection between these poems of courtly love?

Book excerpt: ‘Awakening Joy’ by James Baraz and Shoshana Alexander
Podcast: Jerrold Levinson on Music and Eros
Slideshow: Famous Literary Drunks and Addicts
Short story: ‘Appetite’ by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Poetry podcast: Lesley Wheeler reads her poem Oral Culture
Photo essay: The Shooting War