Genre as Network & Hybridity’s State of Matter : An Utterance About Literary Terminology
Genre is definitionally malleable, in flux, molten, unfixed in time and space, and this creates chaos.
Memory Care: A Personal Essay
When my grandfather was losing his memory, my son was learning to talk. The world offered itself to my toddler in corners and syllables.
Conversations: Rone Shavers and Terese Svoboda
“The very idea of a container makes me itch to deconstruct it.”
The Lure of Antiquities
To think about antiquity is to think about time. It is an inevitable process. Ask yourself: what other way is there to describe how objects wear their histories? How else…
On Kunwar Narain, “the Buddha of contemporary poetry”
Regardless of the genre of writing, the discourses and theories about translation hardly offer any help to the readers. The fundamental purpose of translating a work is to secure a…
“They Tell Me Nothing’s Gone”: On Robert Lowell, Life Studies, and Recovery
By the time Robert Lowell started writing most of the poems in Life Studies, he had been hospitalized five times, mostly for acute mania, and all since the completion of…
Conversations: Adam Kirsch and Aviya Kushner
I think that belief in the eternal—in texts that will last—is something that can be felt across Jewish literature.
Virginia Woolf for FCC Chair!
Woolf’s critique of media concentration, slyly embedded in Three Guineas (1938) is highly relevant today.
Conversations: Loie Rawding and Lauren Connell Johnson
For me, the environments that contain our bodies dictate, to a certain degree, what we are capable of.