August 30, 2013
This World: Dig It
All morning, from across the bogs and beyond the whale-road, tributes have been pouring in for Seamus Heaney. It’s a lovely thing to witness: words (by Heaney, by his admirers) […]
September 7, 2011
On September 11 in The Kenyon Review
The morning the planes flew into the towers, the US president was reading “The Pet Goat” to a group of second-graders at the Booker Elementary in Sarasota, Florida. This year’s […]