Blues for a Red Planet // Fashion Week
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Read MoreScala or Piolo? The Painstaking Brilliance of Alessandro Manzoni
/Poet, dramatist, and author of the great Italian novel I promessi sposi, Alessandro Manzoni led a life as fascinating as his fiction. Luciano Mangiafico tells the story of the Father of Italian Prose.
Read More'I'm the Top Goddess – How Could I Fail to Make Trouble?'
/Renowned classicist and historian Peter Green has at last produced a translation of the Iliad - and it comes with its own Greek Chorus. Steve Donoghue investigates.
Read MoreReading Poetry
/From Wallace Stevens to Seamus Heaney to Jorie Graham, the latest collection of critical pieces by Helen Vendler celebrates the worth of a wide array of writers. Jack Hanson reviews The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar.
Read MoreSomething and Not
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Read MoreNanook of the North
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Read MoreBook Review: On Elizabeth Bishop
/In the latest Princeton "Writers on Writers" installment, novelist Colm Toibin writes about poet Elizabeth Bishop
Read MoreBook Review: Those Who Write For Immortality
/"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work," Woody Allen famously quipped; "I want to achieve immortality through not dying." Robert Minto reviews a new book on what it takes to make it big in the literary afterlife
Read MoreBach so plentiful
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Read MoreThe Only Relevant Thing
/Matthew Lippman's third poetry collection sings of the joys and sorrows of married life - and ventures onto broader societal stages as well. The result shows the reader in new detail a world they thought they knew.
Read MoreThese Pictures are Themselves Little Souls
/A new reprint line from the New York Review of Books concentrates on literature from - and on - China's long literary history, and the first three volumes offer the strange, the familiar, and the beautiful.
Read MoreGrudge Sliver
/In Alice Fulton's new book Barely Composed, her poems flash across the whole of the language, whip it into a froth, playfully distort it, and sometimes bypass it altogether. Open Letters' Poetry Editor reads along.
Read MoreThe Buildup of Erasure
/Claudia Rankine articulates the truths of the black experience so poignantly in her celebrated collection Citizen by putting them, paradoxically, both plainly and artfully.
Read Morefrom "SCOOT"
/a poem
Read MoreRequiem for the Aral Sea
/a poem, translated by Thoraya El-Rayyes
Read MoreTitle Menu: 6 Lyric Voices of Witness
/The voice of poetry can often be the voice of lyric witness, turning our attention to moments in history that would have eluded us, or that might never have been felt as well as understood. These titles perform this function about as well as it can be done.
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