Each of Sally Rooney’s novels writes back to a novel that she admires: Conversations with Friends to Jane Austen’s Emma; ...

Reading Anne Carson is like opening a box and finding a circus inside, trapeze swings, flights of form, a woman walking on ...

Bill Berkson at the New School he told me I wrote too much like Gertrude Stein. This was quite prescient of him since I had ...

Arendt’s poem tells the story of her farewell to Europe and her arrival in the United States in a dozen lines of verse. But ...

This figure of reeling gave into the poem’s circuitry as a whole—the way it shorts out as if its webbing could open to reveal ...

of Sedona, Arizona, with a blank book for poems. Didn't we emerge from the same prehistoric egg amid sparks of jet & obsidian embedded in the hills of Montmartre? "Only Negroes can excite Paris." ...

mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.

“Every night the same nightmare interrupts my sleep.” With this sentence Scholastique Mukasonga begins her debut Cockroaches, a memoir that came out in French in 2006. That year, Mukasonga was fifty.

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