Good poems can feel like people. Richard Rorty, months before his death, wrote that he regretted…

I think you should read Vivek Narayanan’s After, which is an erudite, funny, chaotic, absorbing…

(1) Homer, (2) Virgil, (3) Horace, (4) Ovid, (5) Lucan, (6) Dante—the list is hot.  And I gotta say…

“It was convenient for John Ashbery,” begins the first and titular essay of Douglas Crase’s On…

When I read about art, I want to read about its movingness to an individual human being, and the…