Articles
… By now, you have probably heard of the fundraising website Kickstarter. The premise is simple: you create a … are now using websites like Kickstarter, Pubslush, Indiegogo, Unbound, and Authr.com to crowdsource funding for … I am hopeful this will change in the coming year. Key points from this panel include: • There are 169 million …
… sphere like white seeds Sinking in a still, dark lake. Spirals of brilliance, They float silently and slowly deeper and … eye, light spreads like afternoon spreads, Accepting the complications of water burr and chestnut, The efforts of …
Poetry
… sometimes, uttering the names of mountains, Nearby towns, complaining about food and us “Japs.” They won’t say if we’ll be let go. The interrogators come Every few days and ask about our hobbies back home— … And then go light them with a flick from my Zippo. The fish come in from outside the reef, Schooling to the light, and …
… Byron’s Fame in France Among the quantity of studies associated with the Byron Centenary, there were … His Fame and After-Fame”; and G. Roth’s edition of French commemorative poems collected under the title of La Couronne … was profoundly linked with the political and literary upheavals in France. In fact, during the first third of the …
… unionism, races, education, and culture. They uphold a common thesis that a country may pass through a great … equipment, and war production. He finds that the generals are “all loyal to Stalin, all polite, all easy- going, … direct, based on experience at the front: The Russian soldier hated the German invader, and from this hatred, coupled …
Criticism
… exasperating. Until recently, he hasn’t had much of an audience outside of Europe. But thanks to New Directions, … we’ve been graced with Krasznahorkai’s four taxing, darkly comic novels: Satantango , War & War , The Melancholy of … In his introduction to Krúdy’s Sunflower , John Lukacs points to “the loneliness of the Hungarian language” as one …