__________________________________________________________________________________________ The drift of the world you are not forgotten How could such a big part of us ever be?...
Poetry & Essays
Formerly it was God whose decaying corpse caused the great stench. Nietzsche announced his death. Freud presented the account in...
Jan Steen, The Drawing Lesson, ca. 1665, oil on panel, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. similar postsSinners in the...
It is always a pleasure to stumble upon a new, uncollected poem by a master. Here is a poem Tom...
Sam Feldman When Napoleon wanted a wife he said bring me a wife and they brought him one, phew phew...
The god who keeps you above the abyss of hell how to hold a spider or disgusting insect over the...
If, like me, you are endlessly fascinated by the sonnet and all that it can hold, you should pick up...
The saddest moments of my life as an editor come when I learn that a guest editor of The Best...
In 1983 I wrote an article entitled "Fantasia on Kierkegaard and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" which Laurence Goldstein...
To call a work of literature “unreadable” is a fairly flexible aesthetic judgement. Most of the time it means they...
