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Only Death Wows Me [by Mitch Sisskind]
Only Death Wows Me Hi, all. A couple of things. Only death wows me. Mansions, big private yachts, I can appreciate That stuff but it doesn't wow me. Not even birth, Because first…
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Marlene Dietrich, The Original Blonde Venus [by David Lehman]
Blonde Venus In his latest Talking Pictures column for The American Scholar, David Lehman considers the enduring allure of Marlene Dietrich, whose seductive voice and androgynous style commanded screen and stage for more than…
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RIP Walter LaFeber, the distinguished historian & Cornell professor
Walter LaFeber, the legendary Cornell professor of history, with many devoted students included who went on to hold oimportant posts in the US government, died yesterday in Ithaca at the age of 87. The…
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An Interview with Denise Duhamel [by Aspen Matis]
Denise Duhamel is the author of Second Story (Pittsburgh, 2021). Her other titles include Scald; Blowout; Ka-Ching!; Two and Two; Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems; The Star-Spangled Banner; and Kinky. She guest edited The Best American Poetry 2013 (Scribner) with David…
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Clarinda Harriss: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
___________________________________________________________________________________ April 8, 9, 10: Dear Steve The crows you heard as omens were omens. Frost…
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On “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” [by David Lehman]
One of Gustave Doré’s celebrated engravings illustrating the poem. PHOTO: ART RESOURCE Perhaps the scariest great poem in the English language, even including Poe's, was written by a young genius of limitless potential who…
