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Match My Own
I held my mother’s hand as we strolled down Mott Street, entering the outskirts of Chinatown. More
Phillip Lopate on What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920-1933
I can think of no book I’d rather exchange for the Gideon Bible than Joseph Roth’s What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920–1933. More
Disparate Constellations
I look forward to every episode of No Slander, a podcast by poets Greg Purcell and Ish Klein. It’s sort of like Car Talk with Click and Clack on… More
Jaime Manrique on Don Quixote
“Fame is a form of incomprehension, perhaps the worst,” wrote Jorge Luis Borges in “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote.” It should not be surprising, then, that the most… More
Cynthia Arrieu-King: Poem
Ocean. One perceivable star. / Blue burnished, close. More
Intimate Shadows and the Perfect Bánh Mì
Whenever I hold one of the Song Cave chapbooks in my hand, I reflexively think “classic.” More
Literature Knows No Frontiers: John Galsworthy and the Shaping of PEN
As we look forward to our 90th anniversary in 2012, we also look back to our founding principles, which were written in a period with parallels to today’s uncertain… More
Literature Knows No Frontiers: John Galsworthy and the Shaping of PEN
This past Sunday marked the birthday of English novelist, playwright, and Nobel Laureate John Galsworthy (1867–1933), the first President of PEN International and author of the first three articles… More
U.N. Calls on China to Release Liu Xiaobo
The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention calls on the government of China to release Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo and his wife, Liu Xia. More
Bruce Ducker on Anna Karenina
From the time I read the book at age 19 I had been in love with the heroine. Caught in a loveless marriage with Karenin, bored by her life… More
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