On Cosmopolitanism and the Love of Literature: Revisiting Harold Bloom Through His Final Books
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado looks back on the work of Harold Bloom....
Summoned to the Stand: On Erica McAlpine’s “The Poet’s Mistake”
Declan Ryan vets “The Poet’s Mistake” by Erica McAlpine....
Star Vehicle: On Translating Poetry
Polish poet Tomasz Różycki reflects on his craft of translation, in an essay translated by Mira Rosen-thal....
“No Worst, There Is None”: On Gerard Manley Hopkins
Vona Groarke finds little comfort and much inspiration in one of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Terrible Sonnets.”...
Manifestations of Higher Meaning: On Dana Gioia’s “The Catholic Writer Today” and “Studying with Miss Bishop”
Peggy Ellsberg praises the clarity, reverence, and affection of “The Catholic Writer Today” and “Studying with Miss Bishop” by Dana Gioia....
Hunting Down Repositories: A Conversation with George Saunders
Sean Hooks speaks to George Saunders about his first nonfiction book, “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain.”...
Reading for Unreadability: Racializing Asians During the Long Cold War
Kion You reviews Sunny Xiang's "Tonal Intelligence: The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War."...
Unknown Cities: On Daniel Mendelsohn’s “Three Rings”
Jehanne Dubrow ponders "Three Rings," the new book by Daniel Mendelsohn....
How to Read an Artichoke: On George Saunders’s “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain”
Robert Allen Papinchak sits in on the master class of “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain” by George Saunders....
Romanticism of the Present
Bakary Diaby reviews two new books by Anahid Nersessian, "The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life" and "Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse."...
Man of Sorrows: On Terry Eagleton’s “Tragedy”
Rhodri Lewis makes sense of "Tragedy," the newest book from Terry Eagleton....
Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White
An illuminating, thought-provoking, refreshingly broad-minded new book about the blues....
