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fromwww.nytimes.com
8 hours ago

Poetry Challenge Day 3: W.H. Auden, The Poet and His Technique

Wystan Hugh Auden was a celebrated poet whose work continues to resonate and express complex human emotions even decades after his death.
#poetry
fromwww.nytimes.com
2 days ago
Writing

Poetry Challenge: Memorize The More Loving One by W.H. Auden

Memorizing poetry is enjoyable and can shift perspectives on love and the universe.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago
Books

X.J. Kennedy dies at 96; prize-winning poet and educator brought The Bedford Reader' to countless students

X.J. Kennedy, prolific poet, children's-book creator and textbook editor known for witty, darkly macabre verse and Bedford Reader contributions, died at 96.
Writing
fromThe Marginalian
4 days ago

Walt Whitman's Field Guide to Being Yourself: The Trial and Triumph of Leaves of Grass

A teenage boy in 1833 finds inspiration in theater, literature, and poetry, shaping his future contributions to social justice and cultural awakening.
Books
fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago

Briefly Noted Book Reviews

The novels explore complex themes of intimacy, loss, and coping mechanisms in relationships between young women and older figures.
fromHarvard Gazette
3 weeks ago

Writing us back from the brink - Harvard Gazette

"We're talking about political leaders who were moved by an enormous sense of responsibility and fear for the world."
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Baldwin by Nicholas Boggs review the relationships that drove a genius

James Baldwin's legacy has been revitalized, particularly through Raoul Peck's documentary, despite earlier criticisms of his work and its relevance.
Writing
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Helen DeWitt turns down $175k Windham-Campbell prize over promotional requirements

Helen DeWitt declined the Windham-Campbell prize due to promotional requirements amid personal struggles, emphasizing the difficulty of such obligations for writers.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Daunting, inspiring, comforting, terrifying: the writers who can make silence as eloquent as words

A vision lay before him: Fleet Street blanketed with snow, silent, empty, pure white, and, at the end of it, the huge and majestic form of Saint Paul's Cathedral. It was a spellbinding moment: the great thoroughfare temporarily devoid of carts and carriages, the cathedral looming blurrily out of the still-falling snowflakes a real-life snow globe.
London
Film
fromThred Website
4 weeks ago

Were we wrong about Marty Supreme?

Marty Supreme's marketing strategy backfired, leading to a significant decline in public favor and zero awards at major ceremonies.
Books
fromThe Atlantic
3 weeks ago

How Long Can You Live Your Ideals?

Pat Calhoun chooses parenthood over radicalism, paralleling Elsa Haddish's struggle between her militant past and raising her daughter safely.
Writing
fromThe Atlantic
2 weeks ago

The Feeling of Becoming Less and Less of a Person

The advent of the smartphone marked a significant shift in human perception and relationships, altering the human sensorium since June 2007.
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2 weeks ago
Writing

Ben Lerner's Big Feelings

Ben Lerner's new book, Transcription, explores the complexities of authorial voice and the nature of interviews through a unique narrative structure.
fromThe New Yorker
3 weeks ago
Writing

The Ample Rewards of Ben Lerner's Slender New Novel

An interview with Ben Lerner reveals complexities of memory and influence in art and literature.
Writing
fromArtforum
2 weeks ago

Ben Lerner's Transcription and the Fictional Readymade

Ben Lerner's new novel, Transcription, showcases his restless creativity and innovative formal experimentation in fiction.
Writing
fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago

He Wrote a Book About Interviewing. Here's His Interview.

Ben Lerner's 'Transcription' explores memory, language, and technology through the lens of a writer's relationship with his mentor.
Writing
fromVulture
2 weeks ago

Ben Lerner's Big Feelings

Ben Lerner's new book, Transcription, explores the complexities of authorial voice and the nature of interviews through a unique narrative structure.
Writing
fromThe New Yorker
3 weeks ago

The Ample Rewards of Ben Lerner's Slender New Novel

An interview with Ben Lerner reveals complexities of memory and influence in art and literature.
Roam Research
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Letters from Our Readers

Clear-air turbulence over Southeast Asia caused dramatic altitude changes in both modern commercial flights and World War II transport planes, with historical flights experiencing far more severe drops than contemporary incidents.
Women
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

The Feminist Visionary Who Lost the Plot

Elizabeth Cady Stanton's experience of discrimination at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention catalyzed her feminist activism, though her sense of intellectual superiority later contributed to bigoted views.
Philosophy
fromHarvard Gazette
1 month ago

Where have all the public intellectuals gone? - Harvard Gazette

Public intellectuals are essential in democratic cultures to articulate unformed ideas and help citizens understand their values, but conditions supporting intellectual life in America are eroding due to social and economic shifts.
Writing
fromThe Nation
3 weeks ago

The Enigma of Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein's complex writing style and innovative use of language significantly influenced 20th-century literature, despite ongoing ambivalence from readers.
Public health
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Martyn Butler obituary

Martyn Butler co-founded the Terrence Higgins Trust in 1982, Europe's first organization responding to the HIV/AIDS crisis, inspired by his friend Terry Higgins's death.
US Elections
fromThe Nation
1 month ago

George Packer's Liberal Imagination

The Short American Century, spanning 1945-2016, progressed through four distinct eras of confidence, skepticism, exuberance, and hubris before ending with Trump's 2016 election, which shattered liberal consensus about permanent American dominance.
Books
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

What Went Wrong When Susan Sontag Met Thomas Mann?

Susan Sontag recalled a disappointing 1947 meeting with Thomas Mann at age fourteen, experiencing profound disillusionment when the literary titan failed to match her idealized expectations of him.
Europe politics
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

The Country That Made Its Own Canon

Sweden released a national culture canon, sparking controversy over national identity as immigration rises and the nationalist Sweden Democrats gain political influence.
Writing
fromDefector
4 weeks ago

Namwali Serpell On Understanding Toni Morrison The Author, Not The Icon | Defector

Black literature's significance in America often emphasizes political utility over artistic value, limiting its broader appreciation.
Books
fromHarvard Gazette
1 month ago

'New trick' at 50: Fiction. And now, raves. - Harvard Gazette

Epidemiologist Janet Rich-Edwards was inspired to write her debut novel 'Canticle' after attending a Radcliffe lecture on medieval nuns' liturgical books, discovering a connection between academic scholarship and creative fiction writing.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Remembering Ted Berger, Christopher White, and Hudson Talbott

Multiple notable figures across the arts passed away, including patrons, curators, photographers, sculptors, illustrators, painters, and cartoonists with lasting cultural impact.
fromCornell Chronicle
2 months ago

Writer, artist Tricia Hersey to give annual MLK lecture | Cornell Chronicle

This year, our committee knew that we needed a speaker who could hold space for our students who are navigating grief and loss, experiencing emotional burnout and mental health crises and struggling to show up for themselves and for others,
Social justice
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

One of Our Own

For Lowell There are things which, said and true, are of this generation's past; of fighting freedom's battles and of taking off the mask- stories of the actions taken, to blot out the blights of sin, how heroes and the valorous fought their enemies within, Would we be traitors to our bugle, which beckons with its call? - They won freedom for their people but in fine print said: be damned.
US politics
Television
fromHarvard Gazette
1 month ago

How realistic is 'The Pitt'? - Harvard Gazette

Emergency physicians confirm that 'The Pitt' accurately depicts ER pacing, constant interruptions, emotional whiplash between cases, and realistic portrayals of mental health crises and socioeconomic patient challenges.
Left-wing politics
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

How the University Replaced the Church as the Home of Liberal Morality

Universities have replaced churches and unions as primary institutions shaping young liberals' moral imagination, community, and political activism.
Books
fromVulture
1 month ago

There Are No Great Pandemic Novels

Andrew Martin's novel Down Time captures pandemic-era anxiety through characters navigating personal humiliation and inaction while confronting the disconnect between aspirational pursuits and the crisis unfolding around them.
Arts
fromHarvard Gazette
2 months ago

Updike's life in letters - Harvard Gazette

John Updike produced vast correspondence and literary works—over 25,000 letters, 60-plus books, and thousands of shorter pieces—making letters integral to his prolific output.
Writing
fromHarvard Gazette
1 month ago

The art of College poetry - Harvard Gazette

Harvard College hosts three National Youth Poet Laureates who emphasize performance techniques, personal storytelling, and the transformative power of poetry in their academic and artistic pursuits.
Books
fromHarvard Gazette
1 month ago

That's a book? - Harvard Gazette

Italo Calvino used tarot card decks as a computational system to generate interconnected narratives, predating modern AI by decades and demonstrating how structured systems can create complex literary works.
Writing
fromHarvard Gazette
1 month ago

You know the author. Meet the typist. - Harvard Gazette

Women typists played essential but often uncredited roles in producing major literary and academic works, from typing manuscripts to transcribing interviews for famous authors and scholars.
fromKqed
10 months ago

'Steve Martin Writes the Written Word' Shows Depth of Comedian's Talent

Steve Martin Writes the Written Word is an aptly-named collection and excellent introduction to the comedian's best writings, including some new material. In another piece, he makes the list of 100 greatest books he read laugh out loud funny with fake titles such as "Omelet: Olga - Mnemonic Devices for Remembering Waitress' Names" and "Marijuana! Totally Harmless (can't remember author)."
Books
Books
fromInsideHook
1 month ago

What to Read Right Now, According to Cool Men

Men discuss fiction books they recommend others read, including Pulitzer Prize winners, memoirs, and fantasy novels to combat reading disengagement.
Books
fromHarvard Gazette
2 months ago

The stories behind the books - Harvard Gazette

Harvard's library collection includes books that use layered images, movable elements, and raised type to create interactive, tactile, and accessible reading experiences.
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Books
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

Literature Has a Stay-at-Home-Dad Problem

Stay-at-home fathers are consistently portrayed as incompetent buffoons in literature, rarely depicted as skilled, engaged parents despite their growing real-world presence.
Books
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

How Do You Write About the Inexplicable?

Rational skepticism coexists with a persistent tendency to personify evil and read coincidences as omens.
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Briefly Noted Book Reviews

Dilara, the protagonist of this début novel, is consumed by the absence of a stable home in her life. She and her family flee Turkey, where she is from, after a failed coup in 2016. When they end up in Italy, something inexplicable happens: Dilara's bathroom transforms into a cell in an infamous prison on the outskirts of Istanbul.
Books
Books
fromHarvard Gazette
2 months ago

Gathering medieval French prayerbook, Kabuki in America, Sylvia Plath's thoughts - Harvard Gazette

Houghton Library's new acquisitions display showcases diverse rare materials—from an 18th–19th-century Georgian Bible to Sylvia Plath's books and internment camp letters.
Writing
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

Literary Theory

Words carry multiple meanings; 'swallow' embodies both bird and ingestion, showing language's power to alter perception and emotional states.
Books
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

David Remnick on S. N. Behrman's "The Days of Duveen"

The New Yorker consistently produced long reported pieces that combined in-depth reporting with sustained humor, continuing a multi-generational editorial tradition.
Books
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

Father James Martin chronicles the meandering path that brought him to the priesthood

God works through ordinary jobs and life experiences to shape vocation, guiding people toward growth, service, and ministry from unexpected beginnings.
Books
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Adrian Matejka Reads C. D. Wright

Adrian Matejka reads poetry selections including C. D. Wright's 'Against the Encroaching Grays' and his own poem 'Almost Home' in conversation with Kevin Young.
Books
fromwww.newyorker.com
2 months ago

April Bernard Reads John Ashbery

April Bernard reads John Ashbery's A Worldly Country and her poem Beagle or Something; she has published novels and poetry and teaches at Skidmore College.
Books
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Readers say goodbye to Book World from 'The Washington Post'

The Washington Post's Book World section closure removes a major source of book reviews and recommendations for casual general readers, impacting discovery more than dedicated book enthusiasts.
Books
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

The lost lessons of Jorge Luis Borges: His English and American literature classes

Recovered 1966 lectures by Jorge Luis Borges were published, revealing lost oral work and previously uncollected material through meticulous editorial recovery.
Books
fromVulture
1 month ago

How Should a White Woman Writer Be?

White women writers from the Dimes Square literary scene are receiving major book launches and media attention, sparking both acclaim and online criticism about nepotism and industry favoritism.
Books
fromAnOther
2 months ago

30 Years On, Infinite Jest Offers a Map to an Increasingly Chaotic World

Infinite Jest remains a culturally iconic, sprawling novel that blends satire, addiction, technology, and formal experimentation, shaping David Foster Wallace's literary legacy.
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