We're coming out of retirement to share these two sonnets by Luís de Camões, translated by William Baer. The Passion So why has the triu...

Pundits are offering all sorts of reasons to explain why Democrats won and why Republicans lost. Most of these explanations are of very lit...

Why are we always the last to find out about these things?! Dana Gioia is resigning as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts in J...

We’ve recently been enjoying a number of short stories by T. C. Boyle. We’d read some of his work before (“Greasy Lake” comes to mind), b...

Charles Bernstein has some timely advice for bailing out poetry: Cultural leaders have come together to announce a massive poetry buyout: le...

For those of you looking for a quick Chesterton fix, InsideCatholic.com has a couple of reviews up. One is positive; the other , less so. ...

From the LA Times : David Foster Wallace, the novelist, essayist and humorist best known for his 1996 novel "Infinite Jest," was f...