The man behind the immensely popular Poetry Unbound podcast discusses the two books he’s publishing this year, early objections to Patrick Kavanagh, and the vitalness of surprise ...
The beloved weekly magazine encompassing journalism, fiction, poetry and cartoons, is celebrating its centenary. New Yorker ...
With the dawn of a ceasefire in Gaza, the writer reflects on collections by Palestinian poets that don’t lose sight of love ...
Czesław Miłosz lost his homeland to a Stalinist regime. What have we Americans valued in our own cultural past that might now ...
The resilience of women and their power to effect change when they work together are two of the inspiring central themes of a ...
Trieste is a harbor city tucked into the northeastern corner of Italy, where hilly streets drop to piazzas along the Adriatic ...
The Portuguese director Tiago Rodrigues’s latest show, “No Yogurt for the Dead,” is based on his dying father’s scribbles but ...
And what does all this mean in a poem about having a baby, and all the ambivalent feelings this may produce in a mother? In one of the real Plath poems that was included in the survey, Winter ...
It’s such a deceptively simple question. We hear it dozens of times a day and often answer on autopilot: Fine. Good. Can’t ...
In If Only, the Norwegian novelist distills a story of romance into all its private discomfort and claustrophobia. Its ...
The critical explanations extend into Rahman’s analysis of the mechanisms of the poem telling us — to ... s true”, giving us in one line the ambivalent demotic of the authority of truth.