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The motorcade has already pulled up outside Stately Archambeau Manor, the engines of the limousines and auxiliary support vehicles purring...

Back in 1998, it still seemed marginally plausible to believe that much of the grand expanse of American poetry could be divided into tw...

Since the death of  Wisława  Szymborska  a week ago, the Nobel-winning Polish poet has been memorialized countless times.  Generally, th...

"Yes," wrote the 24 year old William Butler Yeats in 1889, "my beard is off!" The declaration comes in a letter to K...

I used to post an end-of-year report on all the books I'd read during the prior year.  I was inspired to do so by Steve Evans, who ask...

Secret revealed:  I was almost an unemployed art historian.  I was also almost an unemployed philosopher, and an unemployed historian. Tha...

Keith Tuma, debonair man of letters Sometimes, when you're reading a couple of seemingly unrelated books simultaneously, there...

Why should anyone care about the theater of the absurd?  I found myself arguing about this with a colleague a while back.  We’ been thin...