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The Trouble Clef – Rachmaninov [by Lera Auerbach]
When one thinks of Rachmaninov, usually what comes to mind is his face, serious and stern, clean-shaven, with a short modern haircut. His expression is distant and cold. He looks like a British gentleman,…
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Much Depends on Dinner: Baking with Robin Neidorf and Talia
Robin Neidorf and I were classmates in graduate school and whenever I think of her or we exchange e-mails I have to remind myself that she's not still one year out of Williams College.…
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Mary Jo Bang Translates Dante’s “Inferno”
Botticelli's Dante [c. 1495] Canto III Welcome to the city of woe.Welcome to everlasting sadness.Welcome to the grave cave. Justice made the maker build it just like this—if being is power, power created it,…
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Hudson house–Wallpaper [by Karin Roffman]
In An Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein suggests she learned to write by looking at walls. About 1903, she and her brother Leo began amassing what became one of greatest collections of…
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Hoop Dreams: Talk to Her Edition [Gabrielle Calvocoressi]
I’ve said it before but I feel like the most appropriate author photo for a writer with a significant other is a picture of said writer doing something like sitting with their head in…
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However Measured [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Darlink Bleaders, Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? Love is not love which alters when…
