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August 13, 2014

From religious German censors to French Enlightenment intellectuals, Europeans pan John Milton’s masterpiece.

July 18, 2014

An awards controversy in North Carolina raises questions of merit.

July 08, 2014

While Parisian literati clamoured for him, the poet remained in a self-imposed African exile, having turned his back on writing for a decade.

May 12, 2014

These three poems might not be as dirty as “A Man from Nantucket,” but with Nabokov, Bukowski and McInerney, we’re getting close.

April 22, 2014

Sometimes eating is as much about fantasizing as it is tasting.

April 02, 2014

Was Homer the original G?

March 17, 2014

Happy St. Patty’s Day from the late great Irish poet.

February 24, 2014

On the 162nd anniversary of Gogol destroying his own work, we examine a few of the novels and poems left incomplete by their authors.

August 06, 2013

We take literary-minded words and anagram them to find ... deeper meaning? Hidden truth? Happy coincidence?

August 01, 2013

Robert Frost and Donald Hall — two iconic, though very different New Hampshire poets — got their due at the Bookstock Literary Festival.

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