Patrick Kurp

Patrick Kurp is a writer living in Houston, and the author of the literary blog Anecdotal Evidence.

To Draw the Mortal Hours: On James Matthew Wilson’s “The Strangeness of the Good”

Patrick Kurp appreciates the humility and plain speech of James Matthew Wilson’s poetic chronicle of the pandemic in “The Strangeness of the Good.”...

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POETRY

Mirror-Man: On Aaron Poochigian’s Translation of Baudelaire

Patrick Kurp finds a “stylized, vigorous, clear” Baudelaire in Aaron Poochigian’s translation of “The Flowers of Evil.”...

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POETRY

“My Soul Demanded It”: On Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “Between Two Millstones”

Patrick Kurp reads “Between Two Millstones, Book 2: Exile in America, 1978-1994,” a memoir by the Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn....

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MEMOIR & ESSAY

Complex, Simple: On Robert Conquest’s “Collected Poems”

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POETRY

A Set of Vicious Russian Nesting Dolls: On Varlam Shalamov’s “Sketches of the Criminal World: Further Kolyma Stories”

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AROUND THE WORLD

FICTION

“Cheering as the Summer Weather”: On the Primal Appeal of Light Verse

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POETRY

His Own “Final Thing”: On Varlam Shalamov’s “Kolyma Stories”

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AROUND THE WORLD

FICTION

“The Dramatis Personae of Our Lives”: On “A Bountiful Harvest: The Correspondence of Anthony Hecht and William L. MacDonald”

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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

POETRY

Outside It Is Already Winter: Two New Books on Stalinist Terror

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AROUND THE WORLD

MEMOIR & ESSAY

HISTORY

“The Exceptional Man”: Rereading Richard Wilbur

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POETRY

A Negative Freedom: Thirteen Poets on Formal Verse

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POETRY

“That Little Sob in the Spine”: Vladimir Nabokov in Conversation

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FICTION