by Stephen Dunn
Because in my family the heart goes first
and hardly anybody makes it out of his fifties,
I think I’ll stay up late with a few bandits
of my choice and resist good advice.
I’ll invent a secret scroll lost by Egyptians
and reveal its contents: the directions
to your house, recipes for forgiveness.
History says my ventricles are stone alleys,
my heart itself a city with a terrorist
holed up in the …
Vincent Bzdek, Washington Post writer and editor and author of Woman of the House, explores the legacy of three Kennedy brothers in his latest book, The Kennedy Legacy: Jack, Bobby …
Randa Jarrar’s first novel, A Map of Home, tells the story of a girl coming of age in the Middle East and in middle America — Texas, to be precise. …
by Robert Hass
The fog has hovered off the coast for weeks
And given us a march of brilliant days
You wouldn’t recognize-who have grumbled
So eloquently about gray days on …
The Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books That Shaped the Cold War
by John V. Fleming
–Reviewed by Adam Fleisher
John V. Fleming, professor emeritus of literature at Princeton, tells the compelling stories of …
by Phillip Schultz
My first day in New York City
I found a sweet pad on Jane Street.
It was spring, everyone was hurrying
somewhere tremendous, bursting
with the most eclectic …
Stephen T. Asma, a professor of philosophy at Columbia College, took up monsters by way of natural history museums, the subject of his last book, where he found “anything from …
Briny and smiling, he stood in the kitchen, pulled me over to the pot, lifted the lid: an odd insect with pomegranate- seed eyes waved its feelers like awkward chopsticks.
Gustav Niebuhr, a former religion reporter for The New York Times, is an associate professor of religion and the media at Syracuse University. Niebuhr is the grandson of H. Richard …
Beyond America’s Grasp: A Century of Failed Diplomacy in the Middle East by Stephen P. Cohen –Reviewed by Angilee Shah It is essential, as the saying goes, to “know thine enemy.” Citizen …
