An Anatomy of Freedom on India’s 75th Anniversary

A poetry anthology memorializing the 75th anniversary of India’s independence questions the very idea of freedom.

John le Carré’s Life Beyond The Pigeon Tunnel

David Cromwell, a little like Smiley.

Finding Toussaint Louverture, Spartacus of the Haitian Revolution

Contemplating Toussaint Louverture’s unfulfilled promise alongside his immense accomplishments.

Conversations: Bitan Chakraborty and Kiriti Sengupta

“Every detail is credible, anchored in the mundane reality of city-dwellers in urban metropolises in contemporary India. [Bitan] Chakraborty is not a fantasist or fabulist; reality is an unvarying constant…

On the Fairy Tales School of English-Language Poetry

Poets reframing, repurposing, revising, and revisioning fairy tales are producing some of the most inventive and dynamic poetry today.

Loosening the Flesh & the Mind: Relic & The Taking of Deborah Logan

Watching horror movies is a kind of mastery. Metaphors become literal, and real horror is supernatural.

Photos of Tina Cane and Nick Courtright

Conversations: Tina Cane and Nick Courtright

Put simply: Humor Saves. I am a fan of humor as a survival mechanism, an ice-breaker, a rhetorical device, and vice.

Why Learning a New Language is Like an Illicit Love Affair

Those are the languages that will consume you—all of you—as you do everything to make them yours.

For Love of the Earth, and the Luck of a Poet: on Derek Sheffield’s Not for Luck

Poets like Sheffield have admonished us not to speak on behalf of the earth…

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