June 3, 2024
Matthew Olzmann Introduces Tobi Kassim
A “nature poem,” in the hands of Tobi Kassim, can arrive in a number of forms, be about a range of topics, and use a wide variety of approaches. Nature […]
June 3, 2024
The Lonely Mountain
1. My ex-boyfriend Somchai wasn’t planning on sharing his HIV test results the night I visited him twenty-five years ago. He was in bed watching the news at the home […]
May 31, 2024
Contact
The Kenyon Review · “Contact” by Mohan Sikka I held Mummy’s broken bones in my hand. It had been fifteen days since she’d been cremated on a pyre of logs, […]
May 31, 2024
Slunk
The Skunk Lady lines a wall of her home with stacked cat carriers and clean pet bowls. In 2001, Deb Cipriano transformed her place in Ohio into a safe harbor […]
May 30, 2024
A Disappearance
The Kenyon Review · “A Disappearance” by noam keim Once upon a time, you roamed the desert of your own solitude, brought to exile by the shape of your desires, […]
April 21, 2024
Q’s Revisions
The New Oxford Book of English Verse edited by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Oxford Press. $3.00 Q used to come late to his class in Aristotle’s Poetics which met once a […]
April 21, 2024
The Nature of Comedy
In Praise of Comedy by James Feibleman. Macmillan. $3.75 Mr. Feibleman begins with two historical and critical surveys, then proceeds to develop an ambitious new theory of comedy, and winds […]
April 21, 2024
Unifying Science
International Encyclopedia of Unified Science. Vol. I, no. 3: Foundations of Logic and Mathematics by Rudolf Carnap. Vol. I, no. 4: Linguistic Aspects of Science by Leonard Bloomfield. Vol. II, […]
April 21, 2024
The Myth of Sainthood: a review of The Star of Satan by Georges Bernanos
The Star of Satan by George Bernanos. Macmillan. $2.50 Periodically the stream of French literature bursts its banks, casts off all moral fetters including Catholicism, and swings violently to the […]
April 20, 2024
The Loud Hill of Wales: a review of The World I Breathe by Dylan Thomas
The World I Breathe by Dylan Thomas. New Directions. $2.50 The unmistakable signature of Dylan Thomas’s poetry, so far as we have it in his three English volumes or in […]
April 20, 2024
France and Its Painting: a review of Modern French Painters by R. H. Wilenski; Verve VIII by E. Teriade; Paris, France by Gertrude Stein
Modern French Painters by R. H. Wilenski. Reynal & Hitchcock. $6.00 Verve VIII edited by E. Teriade. New York: Verve. $2.50 Paris, France by Gertrude Stein. Scribner. $2.50 At least […]