May 18, 2017
“I am a little world made cunningly”: The Poem, the Map, the Self
“I am a little world made cunningly,” begins John Donne’s fifth Holy Sonnet. It becomes clear in the context of the poem that the subject of the sentence and line, its […]
February 18, 2016
The Weight that Will Make Us Planets
A week before the Lunar New Year, an old friend whom you met only last year drops you a line, which means you Skype. Lately the computer freezes because he’s […]