Essays
A Letter from the Editor on Women in Literary Publishing
Recently [March 2011, –ed.], the literary cultural organization VIDA: Women in Literary Arts released a report on women in magazine publishing, focusing particularly on book reviews. The results of their…
A Herman Melville Summer Vacation
For years I had wanted to visit the house where Herman Melville finished writing Moby-Dick. I knew it was in the Berkshires, and on a visit this summer to the area,…
Welcome to The Critical Flame
The Irish poet W.B. Yeats, in one of his more revolutionary moods, is purported to have exclaimed, “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a…
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