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The Spymaster as Vacuum-Cleaner Salesman [by DL]
<<< And the sad man is cock of all his jests. — George Herbert >>> Epigraph to Graham Greene's novel Our Man in Havana (1958). The protagonist — an English widower living in pre-Castro Cuba —…
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“Why I Like You” by John Jenkins [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
John Jenkins is often associated with the "Generation of 68", a loose collection of poets who began publishing towards the end of the 1960s and, in the words of John Tranter, "rose to public…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Eighteen): Jennifer Michael Hecht [by Angela Ball]
September Tonight there must be people who are getting what they want.I let my oars fall into the water.Good for them. Good for them, getting what they want. The night is so still that…
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Double Indemnity: The Highest Achievement in Film Noir [by David Lehman]
from David Lehman's latest "Talking Pictures" column for The American Scholar: <<<Director Billy Wilder’s 1944 film, Double Indemnity, is the ne plus ultra of American film noir. If we were to give out noir…
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Abena Busia: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_____________________________________________________ A Lamentation for Audre Lorde (18th February 1934 – 7th November 1992) Damirifa, Damirifa, Damirifa Due, Due,…
