An Interview with Don DeLillo
Sinclair Lewis called for 'a literature worthy of our vastness.' A novelist tends to feel this spread and breadth in his fingertips (or not) and I’ve tried to bring… More
Marilyn Hacker: Selected Poems
Lines that grapple doubt, written because of the beloved :// when grief subsides, what survives the loss of the beloved ? More
Point Omega
I tormented myself over the running time, settling finally on a freakish fifty-seven-minute movie that was screened at a couple of documentary festivals. It could have been a hundred… More
Susana Amaral’s The Hour of the Star
Great novels are seldom, if ever, successfully translated to the screen (Luchino Visconti’s film adaptation of Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s The Leopard is the one exception that immediately comes to… More
I Am All of Yourselves
Was it because nobody expects the greatest Jewish writer since Kafka to be a part-time beauty columnist whose Chanel suits and wraparound sunglasses made her look more like a… More
Greed’s Prisoner
even the ashes don’t belong to you, his body / in the prison of the Communist Party / so that the spirit-cell you built / without a door without… More
Clarice Lispector: The Hour of the Star
The Hour of the Starby Clarice LispectorTranslated by Giovanni PontieroThe Author's Dedication(alias Clarice Lispector)I dedicate this narrative to dear old Schumann and his beloved Clara who are now, alas,… More
Four Selected Poems
Four Selected Poems1. To A FriendWe ever drank the same water in Yong RiverAnd became crazy youth in campus one after another.We will meet as firmly as a rock… More
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