“True genius can get an idea across even to an inferior mind.She imagined that she took his remorse in hand and changedit into a deeper understanding of life. She took all his shameaway and turned it into something useful.” —Flannery O’Connor, “Good Country People” Good poems are hard to find. A good . . .
Read MoreAfter I’d first begun serious work on my dissertation, the head of the English department greeted me at a semester-end shindig and asked what I was working on. “Magazines,” I said. “Little magazines, and the women who published or edited them.” I rattled off a few names—Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap of The . . .
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The Art of Grace Williams Grace Williams, Global Warming (2010) In the Augusta Savage Gallery in the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, a radiant jewel box awaits. If you enter, it will change as you change. Even if you don’t, it will be there, shifting and shimmering in . . .
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A Review-in-Limericks Beer does not resemble wine so much as it resembles music. – Garrett Oliver October’s upon us once more!But before you head out to the barTo assuage your Fall thirst,Hit the library firstSo you won’t imbibe brew that’s subpar. O Lolita may trip down the tongue,But fine beer takes a path more . . .
Read MoreDetained without charge in Cairo Since August 16, 2013, thousands of people internationally start their days by checking the website tarekandjohn.com, hoping for news of the release of physician Tarek Loubani and filmmaker and scholar John Greyson, two Canadians arrested and detained without charge at the Tora prison in Cairo, Egypt. Loubani’s and . . .
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In Ruth Ozeki’s intricate novel, A Tale for the Time Being, there are multiple strands running through the narrative, themes that span generations and continents. Nestled among the meditations on Buddhism, time, and cats is a powerful story of a young Japanese woman who is struggling to find a place for herself in the . . .
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I have something of a rule of thumb when it comes to writing about political issues. If it’s a matter where we only need to listen to historians, political theorists and strategists, or even philosophers, I’d best stay out of it. Not that the magazine itself should: At the Massachusetts Review, “A Quarterly . . .
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I was with friends at a conference in Britain when I got the news. “Heaney has died,” read Emily’s text. “So sad.” And as others at the conference heard over the course of the day, the reaction was similar: so sad. A former student who had studied the poet’s work with me . . .
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Editor’s Note. In press coverage of the Snowden affair, there often seems to be little sense of what is really at stake. We asked Adam Sitze, from Amherst College’s Department of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, to shine a bit more light on the subject. What follows here is the conclusion of . . .
Read MoreEditor’s Note. In press coverage of the Snowden affair, there often seems to be little sense of what is really at stake. We asked Adam Sitze, from Amherst College’s Department of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, to shine a bit more light on the subject. What follows here is the fourth of . . .
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