November 9, 2013
With or Without You: Government Censorship and Literary Creativity
Good Queen Bess, absolute monarch during the great flowering of English drama, had a hair-trigger policy on censorship. No writer was allowed to criticize the Queen or her policy on […]
August 4, 2013
Popular Art and the Unaccompanied Voice
An unaccompanied voice is almost never the voice you find in popular art forms. Even our most popular singers and rappers don’t get on a stage or on the radio […]
April 5, 2012
Mix Tape: Billy Collins and a Talking Dog
Billy Collins plays himself in a PBS cartoon—one about a talking dog—to celebrate National Poetry Month. But if talking dogs and former poet laureates aren’t your bag, the Academy of […]