Dispatches from the Republic of Letters

<h4>Christopher Merrill's new book, The Tree of the Doves: Ceremony, Expedition, War, will be published in October. He directs the University of Iowa's International Writing Program.</h4>

Christopher Merrill

On Literary Awards, Neustadt and Nobel

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

The Dream Songs

A Child Unkennelled

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Letter from London: Soot and Ash

Christopher Merrill's new book, The Tree of the Doves: Ceremony, Expedition, War, will be published in October. He directs the University of Iowa's International Writing Program.