Anne Carson: The Sheer Velocity and Ephemerality of Cy Twombly

Anne Carson: The Sheer Velocity and Ephemerality of Cy Twombly

“Ancient Things Are New Things."

By Anne Carson | October 22, 2020

Against the Muse Myth: On Motherhood and the Writing Life

Against the Muse Myth: On Motherhood and the Writing Life

Molly Spencer Finds Time to Write in all the Smallest Spaces

By Molly Spencer | October 22, 2020

Mark Salter on Why the Republican Party's Future Is Bleak

Mark Salter on Why the Republican Party's Future Is Bleak

John McCain's Former Chief of Staff Talks to Roxanne Coady on Just the Right Book

By Just the Right Book | October 22, 2020

A Brief History of the Political Essay

A Brief History of the Political Essay

From Swift to Woolf, David Bromwich Considers an Evolving Genre

By David Bromwich | October 22, 2020

The Moment My Poetry Students and I Could No Longer Ignore the Climate Crisis

The Moment My Poetry Students and I Could No Longer Ignore the Climate Crisis

Craig Santos Perez on the Origins of His Course in Ecopoetry

By Craig Santos Perez | October 22, 2020

On Turn-of-the-Century Suffrage Cookbooks, Trojan Horse For Women's Equality

On Turn-of-the-Century Suffrage Cookbooks, Trojan Horse For Women's Equality

In Which One Might Learn How to Make "Pie for a Suffragist’s Doubting Husband."

By Laura Kumin | October 22, 2020

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On Voting: It's Always the Most Important Election of Your Life

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Cheap Writing Surfaces and Medieval Bureaucracy Helped Popularize the Alphabet

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Judith Flanders Explains Why the Alphabet Was Used on a Whim

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After My Partner's Death, I Discovered the Full Richness of His Poetry

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Megan Marshall Remembers Scott Harney

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