October 22, 2012
A metaphysic of the page, a mode of inquiry called wonder: an interview with Dan Beachy-Quick
B. K. Fischer, writing about two of Dan Beachy-Quick’s books for the Boston Review, locates what she sees as a struggle for him and his contemporaries—or for any poet born […]
May 3, 2012
Mix Tape: Only Human
How to introduce an author—and how not to. Case in point: “Should a beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning author have to hear the president of Northwestern’s Jewish students’ society call him Michael […]
March 15, 2012
Mix Tape: March Madness
The Dude himself is publishing a book of Zen teachings. Why Zen? Because nihilism “must be exhausting.” Walden and climate change: Scientists use Thoreau’s notes about flowering dates in 1840s Massachusetts […]