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Daniel E Pritchard on Ernst Herbeck

Dazzling and Tremendous an essay by Daniel Evans Pritchard ". . .we must understand [madness] not as reason diseased, or as reason lost or alienated, but quite simply as reason dazzled."…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2930 words)

Margellos World Republic of Letters

In his ABC of Reading, Ezra Pound begins his short list of nineteenth-century French poets to be studied with Théophile Gautier. Widely esteemed by figures as diverse as Charles Baudelaire, the…
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A reader’s journey of self-transformation from disease to ease.

Photo by C.J.W. Johson, 1870 On the winter solstice of 2008, I am wobbling in orange Wellies atop a bed of rocks and sea anemones, making my inelegant way to the “big rock.” Cupped in…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2507 words)

Margellos World Republic of Letters

Yves Bonnefoy, who will soon attain the age of ninety, has gratified his readers during the past two decades with the most prolific and innovative period of his splendid lifework. This volume…
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LRB · Iain Sinclair · The Man in the Clearing: Meeting Gary Snyder

Coming through the woods, down a soft winding track, two minutes shy of the time we have been instructed to arrive, 10 a.m. on a bright Sunday morning, we see the man already there in the clearing,…
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6193 words)

Lea Aschkenas interviews Margaret Randall

MARGARET RANDALL IS A feminist poet and writer, a professor and oral historian, and a social justice activist in the United States and abroad for the past half century. In 2004, she received the PEN…
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4889 words)

Steve Donoghue on Elizabeth Hardwick

Elizabeth Hardwick, who was born in Kentucky in 1916, attended the University of Kentucky (and early on decided, as she famously put it, to become a New York Jewish intellectual), worked very hard…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3243 words)

LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS

JEFFREY KINDLEYon dining out with Marianne Moore. From a series originally published on our blog [click here], curated by C.P. Heiser.¤ I was watching a new friend make cocoa in her kitchen.…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3785 words)
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The Struggle to Write

The Sound of One Fork was my first book of poetry, published in 1981. These poems and I emerged together from the women’s liberation and lesbian/gay liberation movements of the 1970s. I had…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3558 words)
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