How will John Updike’s writing measure up twenty years from now?
VQR’s connection to the inaugural poem. It’s complicated.
An update from the border crossing, through which victims have been evacuated from Gaza hospitals.
An exclusive front-line report.
The talk-show host recurses into himself, courtesy of Lawrence Lessig.
The 65-year-old author of “The Concubine” was held for about 21 hours earlier this week.
The winners of the Emily Clark Balch Prizes (for fiction and poetry) and the Staige D. Blackford Prize for Nonfiction.
Mark Doty, Billy Collins, and Robert Pinsky get excited about a Thomas Hardy poem, plus CAPTCHA poetry, classifying profanity, and more.
I’d put up $20 that one of these six books will make the NYT Best Books of 2009.
