On three English translations of 'The Iliad'
October 30th, 2012
Crazy people generally don’t know they’re crazy and Dick’s abiding awareness of the dubious nature of his visions makes him at worst a pathetic figure
February 24th, 2012
AFTER DARK ON OCTOBER 15, 2011, as the worldwide "United For Global Change" march drew to a close in Spain, a group of demonstrators held an assembly.
May 19th, 2012
Just as the attacks themselves had little to do with America, so did America play little role in the defeat of al-Qa'ida's ideology.
January 9th, 2012
On Sunday, French voters will go to the polls to decide whether Sarkozy, the incumbent, or François Hollande, the poll favorite, will be president.
May 4th, 2012
Palestinian and Israeli Poets in Conversation
December 2nd, 2012
"The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future" is an experiment not in terror and not necessarily Dickensian.
December 23rd, 2011
Harrison Gray Otis: a biography in progress.
July 15th, 2011
The joy of Edward Gorey's macabre musings
October 31st, 2012
The crisis occurred and persists because an alternative was and is mostly unthinkable.
October 17th, 2011
On Showtime's "Homeland," an American ghost story
October 9th, 2012
Plimpton: The Movie
May 26th, 2013
I’d found my thing. I embraced the scary. I befriended it. The monsters and I fell in love, and I didn’t question why. I was home.
October 30th, 2011
America and its discontents
May 28th, 2013
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