by Louise Glück
It is not the moon, I tell you.
It is these flowers
lighting the yard.
I hate them.
I hate them as I hate sex,
the man’s mouth
sealing my mouth, the man’s
paralyzing body-
and the cry that always escapes,
the low, humiliating
premise of union-
In my mind tonight
I hear the question and pursuing answer
fused in one sound
that mounts and mounts and then
is split into the old selves,
the tired …
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression
by Morris Dickstein
Early in Dancing in the Dark, Morris Dickstein wonders if he is qualified to write about the …
Haggai Ram is a senior lecturer at Israel’s Ben Gurion University, specializing in the modern history of the Middle East, and Iran and Israel in particular. And while he’s sticking …
by John Berryman
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,
we ourselves flash and yearn,
and moreover my mother told …
Richard English is a professor of political science who has been studying the Irish Republican Army since the mid-1980s. His latest book, Terrorism: How to Respond, considers terrorism with a …
Eric Morris was a professional actor as a child, working the theater circuit around his Illinois hometown. In sixth grade, words of praise from a novelist perhaps put him on …
