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In Appreciation of William Matthews [by Peter Fortunato]
Bill Matthews was born on Armistice Day 1942 and died of a heart attack a day after his fifth-fiifth birthday on November 12, 1997. We asked the poet and artist Peter Fortunato to pick…
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Even Bad Books Have Their Charms [by David Lehman]
Even bad books have their charms. Last night I read such a bookthe title of which I shall not mentionnor will I name the book's authorwho thinks…
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Even Bad Books Have Their Charms [by David Lehman]
Even bad books have their charms. Last night I read such a bookthe title of which I shall not mentionnor will I name the book's authorwho thinks…
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Who Will Stop the Madman – A Gogol’s Prophecy [by Lera Auerbach]
My mother was born in 1940 to a Jewish family in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. As Hitler's army marched East in 1941, my grandparents abandoned all their possessions (including their beloved library and cherished collection of…
