Samizdat Blog

Back in the fall of '97 I opened my mailbox to find a free promotional CD from Naxos Records, a label specializing in inexpensive record...

A short review I wrote of Bonnie Costello's new book of criticism, Planets on Tables is now up on the Boston Review site. Costello...

Some very sad news: Franklin Rosemont has died at the age of 65. Rosemont was the kind of man for whom the epithet "American original...

No! Go away! I've had it with you lot, always banging on my door and demanding that I blog about Belgian surrealist poetry of the 40s an...

I've just fished the April issue of Poetry out of my mailbox, and am stoked to find Gabriel and Marcel Piqueray — Belgian twins, Surrea...

Maybe it's because I finally got around to ordering up Milk on the pay-per-view the other day, or maybe it's just because I'v...

About a month ago, in reaction to the bombardment of comments I was getting about how cute my infant daughter was, I posted something about ...

"John Stuart Mill," Karl Marx is said to have opined, "owes his prominence in English philosophy entirely to the flatness of ...

Stand down with the defibrilator! Put that syringe away! Dr. Mike Theune has arrived in the E.R. and tells me I made a misdiagnosis in lab...

When I recently posted a few comments complaining about the clichés of contemporary poetry and calling the poetry that uses them decadent, I...

Jason Guriel defends the negative review in the latest issue of Poetry , and for readily apparent reasons. Right after the defense ("f...

I've yet to see a copy, but judging from the email I've been getting from people who've read my contribution to the issue, the l...