What Broderick is attempting is a French novel set in an Irish town; he wishes to put dangerous liaisons into the Irish midlands, to allow his Irish characters the freedom to pray to God for their ...

It was a hot day in June.

Tadeusz Dąbrowski on stage at the Shakespeare Theatre in Gdansk, Poland.

At the peak of his literary fame, James Baldwin yearned for seclusion. He found it in Istanbul, where he lived on and off between 1961 and 1971. Baldwin was suffering from writer’s block when he ...

begets cruelty, and, before long, one would have to chop off one's own hand to end the source of self-torture. Yet, we ...

Saint, terrorist, fishwife. Stench that appals. Famines, machine guns, the Great Plague (your sickness), Rending of garments, cries, mass burials. I'd watched my beard sprout in the mirror's grave.

Teaching at Duke, 1988. Courtesy of Duke University. The critic Fredric Jameson died at the age of ninety on September 22, 2024, a little more than a year after the first of the three conversations ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. A ...