Auden, Rabelais, and “Charlie Hebdo”
W. H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939” once again offers not just words of comfort, but clues on how to respond to the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
W. H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939” once again offers not just words of comfort, but clues on how to respond to the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
When Siegfried Sassoon, the great World War I poet, was posted in Palestine.
An Indian author, having written about China, turns her gaze to Europe.
One of the most extraordinary elegiac conversations of our time.
Nadeem Aslam's new novel, "The Blind Man's Garden," has the power to move and terrify.