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T. S. Eliot: The More You Know, The More You Don’t
Poet, playwright and critic T.S. Eliot, circa 1920. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES From T.S. Eliot’s essay “The Perfect Critic” for the literary journal Athenaeum in 1920: The vast accumulations of knowledge—or at least of information—deposited by…
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Sherman Alexie: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_____________________________ Gentrification Let us remember the wasps That hibernated in the walls Of the house next door. Its walls Bulged with twenty pounds…
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Donald Shambroom’s “Forsythia” at Mercury Gallery (Rockport)
Forsythia, oil on canvas, 42 x 46 in. Donald Shambroom is a visual artist and writer whose work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the…
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What Makes a Restaurant Great? [by Mitch Sisskind]
So many evenings in the early 80s I made my way along Bennett Avenue, past Yeshiva Samson Raphael Hirsch (familiarly known for some reason as "Breuer's," with D. Lehman a proud alum) to 181st…
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Saturday Surprise [by David Lehman]
Here are five sentences that I didn't write. I proffer them not only because of the formidable intellect behind them but also because of the insights into our culture and into human nature. Some,…
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Two Poems [by Mitch Sisskind]
Old Nellie and the Big Spiders After 4 July how quickly summer goes until Toward the end the big spiders come whom I love…
