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Columbia College 1967 #29 [by Mitch Sisskind]
Carlson Fenwick, Professor In our years-long correspondence concerningAll things Shakespearian Alan Grosbeck and ISometimes amused ourselves by concoctingHare-brained interpretations and pursuingThem to their risibly illogical conclusions.Aware for instance that in Elizabethan times‘Nothing’ was a…
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Paul Berman on Saul Bellow in Jerusalem
from "Bellow in Jerusalem" by Paul Berman (Tablet, January 21, 2020): <<<In the single most remarkable passage of Bellow’s To Jerusalem and Back, Bellow frets over his own ability to see and appreciate miracles…
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Met Percent: Week Fifteen [by Alec Bernstein]
Tear Catchers (?)Swan-Neck Glass Bottle, Iran, 19th c., gallery 462; Christie’s South catalog. “It is unclear how bottles of this shape were used, though sometimes they are known as ashkdans and were supposedly for…
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Pal Johnny, Our Greatest Story Writer [by David Lehman]
John O'Hara, author of "How Can I Tell You?" — one of the subtlest stories in the language — among other masterpieces, has one memorable sentence in his Hollywood novel, The Big Laugh (1962).…
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A Hurricane of Persecuted Stars: Clemente Soto Vélez [translated and introduced by Martín Espada]
One hundred and fifteen years ago this month, Clemente Soto Vélez (1905-1993) was born in Lares, Puerto Rico, the site of an 1868 revolt against Spain. The orphan son of landless peasants, Soto Vélez…
