Damion Searls

Damion Searls has written for Harper’s, n+1, and The Paris Review, and has translated the work of authors including Rainer Maria Rilke, Marcel Proust, and five Nobel Prize winners. He has been the recipient of Guggenheim, NEA, and Cullman Center fellowships.

Who Exactly Was Rilke’s Young Poet Correspondent?

Damion Searls on Translating Letters to a Young Poet
(and the Young Poet's Letters)

November 30, 2020 By Damion Searls

On the Eerie, Enduring Power of the Rorschach Test

How a 100-Year-Old Test Still Reveals More Than We Think

February 22, 2018 By Damion Searls

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