Samizdat Blog

It's been a few days since I've been back from Cambridge, where I was speaking at a conference on the late, great Swedish poet-criti...

Salted cashews, and my personal relationship thereunto, probably provide the best analogy for my experience of reading Ed Sanders's poet...

I've been holding off blogging about Trigons , John Matthias' latest book, since I want to review it properly (if I ever dig myself ...

Research in the humanities is, we are told, is in peril. One group of handwringers glances at a set of data about whose work gets cited in ...

It’s been a while since I heard from the jittery fiend who calls himself Raskolnikov P. Firefly, a former colleague of mine long since gone ...

You're probably exhausted from following the Archambeau World Tour 2010 motorcade, which has already ranged all the way from, well, uh, ...

Anish Kapoor's "Cloud Gate" is, to my mind, the most successful piece of public art in all of Chicago. It is also more repr...

I can’t decide whether it’s David Shields’ courage I admire, or that of his publisher. You know Shields, I think, at least by reputation: a...

A few years ago I wrote an article that said (along with some things about Surrealism and Aestheticism) that the more extravagant claims for...