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The Trouble Clef – Poet’s Suicide [by Lera Auerbach]
So many poets have killed themselves – they could form a city or a small country of their own. Somewhere in the gray islands of Nowhere, after getting drunk on the waters of the…
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Paul Starr on the Media in the Age of Fox News
The current issue of The Atlantic has a brilliant piece by Paul Starr on the history of political journalism in the united States. Here is how the piece begins:<<<The fight between the Obama White…
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Post on a Post [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, How’s it hanging? Such a weird thing to say to someone. Hey, Padre, how’s it hanging? Well, what do I know? I’m old enough to be taken aback by the way “douche…
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Ending a Poem (Part II): Why Must We Leave Each Other This Way?
Why do we end poems the way we do? We have a feel for endings owing to stories, movies, television, sports, recipes — all of our cultural underpinnings. Ever since we were children, stories…
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II. The 30 Films of Akira Kurosawa: Kumonosu jo (Throne of Blood) [1957] (by Lewis Saul)
Ed note: For the next several weeks, composer and film aficionado Lewis Saul has agreed to supply us with in-depth commentary about the films of Akira Kurosawa, now showing in an extended festival at…
