Amity Gaige’s Sea Wife and Claudia Rankine’s Just Us were listed in the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York...
In the twentieth century, meter became an object of disdain, reimagined as an automated metronome to be transcended by new rhythmic practices of free verse. Yet meter...
William Blake’s Color Theory
Quantizing Color in William Blake’s Illuminated Books studies the artistic output of the Romantic poet and painter, William Blake (1757-1827)....
Margaret Spillane in The Nation:
“Costa Gavras’s classic antifascist thriller reminds us that the moment of reckoning constitutes not the end of the story, but the beginning...
Amanda Anderson in conversation with Jonathan Kramnick (Yale University) on the challenges facing the humanities during Covid-19. We discuss the job market crisis for...
This week join National Humanities Center President Robert Newman and writer and scholar David Bromwich to discuss his book, American Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They...
Louise Glück has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature ”for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”
Washington...
