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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,…
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“Sportswriter” [by Dean Smith]
"Sportswriter" Hartzell’s cartoon birdon the front page of the Suntaught me to read—“Birds edge Bosox” or“Orioles drub Twins.” My team routed,pummeled, crushed,and bombed opponents—just like the B-52sin the headlines. Years later, in smoke-ladenhallways and…
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“How Rich” (For Richard Howard) [by David Lehman]
How Rich The root of influence is astrological and is related to influenza. . . . Forty-five years ago I met Richard Howard in the same place where we have met many times since:…
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Two Poems [by Mitch Sisskind]
Jack Benny John Ashbery called me after he died So you can imagine my excitement When in that droll hyper-nasalated Timbre quite unchallenged by death He chatted on about the bowls of Pitted cherries…
