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Nov 12, 2025
“Of Paradise I cannot speak properly, I was not there.” These words by the medieval writer John Mandeville, quoted by Welsh poet David Jones in the preface to his World...
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Nov 6, 2025
Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923), D. H. Lawrence’s most monumental yet also strangest collection of poems, is a book of the postwar years—more precisely, of what its...
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Oct 9, 2025
If it were up to me, photography would not exist. If it were up to me, I would never be photographed, and all images of myself and of everyone else would be spontaneously destroyed....
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Oct 2, 2025
The opening: fraught with menace. A man and his wife and infant daughter are staying in a rented house over the sea in a small Irish town where they are guests for a family wedding....
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Oct 1, 2025
Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line (1998) is less a war film than a film of metaphysical speculation that takes war as its setting. Its theme is “being in the...
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Sep 1, 2025
Alexandre Kojève’s essay “L'Empereur Julien et son Art d’écrire” first appeared (in an English translation by James H. Nichols, Jr.) in Leo...
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Aug 27, 2025
When I first became aware of Stephanie Duhem’s poems sometime in 2020 or 2021, they were the work of an anonymous and mysterious Twitter presence, someone who published in...
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Jul 24, 2025
T. S. Eliot did not describe his poetry as “lyric,” nor did he employ the term as a catch-all for non-narrative, non-dramatic poetry centered on the individual voice. On...
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Jul 18, 2025
Midway through Stop All the Clocks, the cheeky and elusive debut novel from Noah Kumin, we encounter something unexpected in a sci-fi-inflected conspiracy thriller: a parable...
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May 27, 2025
How could I resist? How could the crash of a Mexican Navy tall ship into Brooklyn Bridge last week help calling to mind the work of Hart Crane? (OK, OK, I was probably influenced by...
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Apr 25, 2025
How could he be other than a figure of fascination? Alexandre Kojève, born Alexandre Kojevnikoff to a wealthy merchant family in Moscow in 1902, glares out of most of his...
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Mar 21, 2025
I first learned of Sophie Madeline Dess’s work when a friend sent me her story “Unfathomably Deep,” then just published in The Drift. It was sent without comment,...
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Mar 14, 2025
Did it break the spell? Did rewatching Terry Gilliam’s time travel film 12 Monkeys release the hold it has had on me these past months, haunting my thoughts and...
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Mar 7, 2025
The work of the Irish novelist John Banville has long combined high aestheticism, fascination with vagaries of subjectivity, and a strong streak of pulp. “This thing of...
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Jan 27, 2025
Balzac published The Physiology of the Employee in 1841, to wide amusement. This was the year before he unveiled the preface to his Comédie Humaine, at once...
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Jan 15, 2025
W. B. Yeats’s association with the English designer, poet, and socialist William Morris lasted from 1887 to 1890, during which time the young Irish poet attended Sunday...
Nov 12, 2025“Of Paradise I cannot speak properly, I was not there.” These words by the medieval writer John Mandeville, quoted by Welsh poet David Jones in the preface to his World...
Nov 6, 2025Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923), D. H. Lawrence’s most monumental yet also strangest collection of poems, is a book of the postwar years—more precisely, of what its...
Oct 9, 2025If it were up to me, photography would not exist. If it were up to me, I would never be photographed, and all images of myself and of everyone else would be spontaneously destroyed....
Oct 2, 2025The opening: fraught with menace. A man and his wife and infant daughter are staying in a rented house over the sea in a small Irish town where they are guests for a family wedding....
Oct 1, 2025Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line (1998) is less a war film than a film of metaphysical speculation that takes war as its setting. Its theme is “being in the...
Sep 1, 2025Alexandre Kojève’s essay “L'Empereur Julien et son Art d’écrire” first appeared (in an English translation by James H. Nichols, Jr.) in Leo...
Aug 27, 2025When I first became aware of Stephanie Duhem’s poems sometime in 2020 or 2021, they were the work of an anonymous and mysterious Twitter presence, someone who published in...
Jul 24, 2025T. S. Eliot did not describe his poetry as “lyric,” nor did he employ the term as a catch-all for non-narrative, non-dramatic poetry centered on the individual voice. On...
Jul 18, 2025Midway through Stop All the Clocks, the cheeky and elusive debut novel from Noah Kumin, we encounter something unexpected in a sci-fi-inflected conspiracy thriller: a parable...
May 27, 2025How could I resist? How could the crash of a Mexican Navy tall ship into Brooklyn Bridge last week help calling to mind the work of Hart Crane? (OK, OK, I was probably influenced by...
Apr 25, 2025How could he be other than a figure of fascination? Alexandre Kojève, born Alexandre Kojevnikoff to a wealthy merchant family in Moscow in 1902, glares out of most of his...
Mar 21, 2025I first learned of Sophie Madeline Dess’s work when a friend sent me her story “Unfathomably Deep,” then just published in The Drift. It was sent without comment,...
Mar 14, 2025Did it break the spell? Did rewatching Terry Gilliam’s time travel film 12 Monkeys release the hold it has had on me these past months, haunting my thoughts and...
Mar 7, 2025The work of the Irish novelist John Banville has long combined high aestheticism, fascination with vagaries of subjectivity, and a strong streak of pulp. “This thing of...