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Columbia, “the bedlam of 1968” redux [by Franklin Foer]
People are talking about "Columbia University’s Anti-Semitism Problem" by Franklin Foer in The Atlantic: Here are a few excerpts. "If the bullying of Jewish students had happened to any other group, the institution would…
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The Party (a poem from 1992)
The Party Everyone started talking about the drama critic As soon as she left. "Did you see what she Was wearing?" The Presidents of Harvard, Brown, and Duke Were quoted deploring recruitment practices current…
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Three Uplifting Poets: Denise Duhamel, Virginia Konchan, and Peter Krumbach [by Nin Andrews]
I doubt I’m the only one who has been under the weather, under a cloud or a looming feeling of dread and doubt and disbelief. I’ve had a lingering cold for weeks that’s made…
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The Great Chevalier Tour: trough of inspiration for USA folklore ballet? [By Tracy Danison]
"The Great Chevalier Tour", reaching for the sky for Luxemburg, Le Grand Chevalier. Photo © Arnaud Bouvier As part of the premier of The Great Chevalier Tour, M. Chevalier chose the Vanves, France, City…
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The Spymaster as Vacuum-Cleaner Salesman [by DL]
<<< And the sad man is cock of all his jests. — George Herbert >>> Epigraph to Graham Greene's novel Our Man in Havana (1958). The protagonist — an English widower living in pre-Castro Cuba…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Eighty-Six): Billy Collins [by Angela Ball]
In Praise of Ignorance On a bench one afternoonin a grassy park in Minneapolis,I realized that what I liked bestabout the dogs of Minneapolisis they have no idea they’re in Minneapolis. The same could…
