Essays
… Epic T here are endless ways to lose your sense of place. A common one goes something like this: You call an Uber to get … in this behavior. In 2015, Germaine R. Halegoua, a media-studies scholar, found that 96 percent of her research … monologues, and even a puppet show—all housed on a single website and designed for the smartphone. But in making this …
… Conquer Russia. By Maurice Hindus. Doubleday, Doran and Company. $2.00. Mission to Moscow. By Joseph E. Davies. … liberation directed against plutocracy, and its propaganda also made an appeal to the loyalty of the masses. For a long … statistics and diplomatic materials, relating them at all points to the living body of the people and the nature of …
Interviews
… widely anthologized and published in numerous literary journals (including an essay in VQR in 1990). However, in … experience the terror of presenting work before an audience of critics. Over the years I am always re-learning … a good thing, because the interview or conversation becomes a discipline in paying close attention and in choosing …
Essays
… City. Behind the high wall of the police-headquarters complex, the cars are piled three, four, even five high, their rusted bodies giving the area around them the feel of a junkyard. For … nor has he been captured by any branch of the same. October 26, 1972: Information is released that he is not detained by …
Essays
… as well as the what, and in changing the how great poetry also changes the what. —Kevin Hart, interview He didn’t have … knew at least how to say it. Cold comfort. (“Buffalo Yoga”) Poets who dwell in the same style … John Ashbery, Frank Bidart, and Hayden Carruth) have made a compelling strategy out of the long line, only C. K. …
… year, Samuel L. Clemens dictated what he calls “a combined diary and autobiography,” in which, now nearly … to his mother, his wife, and his daughter Susy, who died at twenty-four, form the lyric notes of the … one of the biggest romancers that ever lived! And he was also, be it said, one of the best users of the English …