The American Soldier in Arab Novels
Iraqi writers, by and large, have created worlds where the soldier’s perspective, either Iraqi or foreign, isn’t primary.
Some Questions About First Novels
The history of the novel is also the history of people coming into an understanding of themselves, of the ways in which we use art not only to reflect but also to change ourselves.
While reading “Sea Unicorns and Land Unicorns”
The doubled reality of one Marianne Moore poem
Frank O’Hara’s Notorious B.I.G.
The affinities between New York’s most mercurial lyricists.
Poetry of Negation and the Negation of Poetry: Dissidence and form in Vietnamese poetry
Dissident poetry resonates against oppression, advocates for democracy, reveals previously undisclosed information, and attacks (the dogma of) traditional values associated with state power.
No One Promised Us Anything: Poetry in Mexico City
The act of climbing a platform and reading poetry in the street is part of the literary transformation that’s arisen in Mexico City. Poets no longer seek closed spaces where only their acquaintances attend to pat them on the back as an institutionalized greeting.
Consumption of Culture as Politics
In Mexico, state-sponsored films allow symbolic critique to supplant structural change.
A typology of the beggar in Western culture.
The contradictions of nostalgic crafting.
The God of Things as They Aren’t
The grotesque humor of Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s photography.