August 12, 2011
We’re All Museums: A Conversation with John Gallaher, pt 2 (fin)
John Gallaher’s lots of things–a ferociously smart guy, a very good poet [three books of his own and a fourth, the very recent and very good collab with KR’s own […]
December 22, 2008
Cynosure: Poetry and World
7. Sprung Vision; Or, Who is Duane and Why Do I Have His Syndrome? Perfect 20/20 vision will not be enough to pass an eye test given to military pilots. […]
March 6, 2008
On What The Horse Left In Brighton
With literary hoaxes back in the news, I hope poetry’s last hoax, Araki Yasusada, the Hiroshima survivor who never lived, gets renewed attention. While the hoax and its many feathers […]
March 4, 2008
A Banner Week for Faking It
For someone who studies autobiography and life-writing for a living, it’s been an interesting week. Last Friday came the announcement that Misha Defonesca has admitted to having fictionalized her heretofore-claimed-to-be-true […]
February 23, 2008
Private Property and Utopia
A couple of weeks ago, I was blogging on the tension between an ideal of common ownership of property and allowances for private ownership. This tension is one that shows […]
February 12, 2008
Of New Things (and Old) in Economic Philosophy
Since my previous blog mentioned the basis of G. K. Chesterton’s “distributism” in papal social teacing, I thought it might be helpful to provide an overview of the latter. One […]
January 30, 2008
The Old Become New Again
In today’s paper, David Brooks has an inspiring column about the Barack Obama campaign. Brooks recounts Monday’s endorsement, at American University, of Obama by Caroline and Edward Kennedy, the daughter […]
December 9, 2007
Sunday Funnies: “Pay the Writer”
Special Note: Today’s links contain many F-bombs! Are your television options going to repeats? This is a good time to pick up a book, I suppose–or to get your radical […]
December 3, 2007
Martin Amis: The Most Hated Man in Britain?
This post is the work of Rob Kunzig, an English major at Kenyon College. He also blogs here.–TM Despite almost a year of good behavior, controversy has found Martin Amis […]
October 9, 2007
Making and Meaning
Recently I was asked to say a few words about the relationship between the work of the critic and that of the poet, so I began with the observation that […]
October 1, 2007
On Intellectual Property and Copyright, Pt. II
This is the second installment of an exchange between Meg Galipault and Stuart Bernstein on intellectual property and copyright issues. This question and answer was conducted in during the summer […]
September 26, 2007
On Intellectual Property and Copyright, Pt. 1
This is the first in a series of exchanges between Meg Galipault and Stuart Bernstein on intellectual property and copyright issues. This question and answer was conducted in during the […]