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Document: Nabokov’s Notes
When Vladimir Nabokov started teaching Russian literature at Wellesley College in 1944, he was frustrated by the lack of an adequate literal translation of Eugene Onegin, which he referred to as “the...
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House of Poesy: At the Grolier Poetry Book Shop
The Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is both a misnomer and an anomaly. It has long dedicated itself to the task of promoting the reading and writing of poetry and has, for...
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Street Haunting with Jean Rhys
Illustration credit Joanna Walsh. The author Jean Rhys had trouble finishing her stories. Rhys told her editor and friend Diana Athill that “ending a novel based on things that had really happened …...
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It’s My Party
How many hotheaded academics does it take to solve a riddle? Andrew Stevovich, Hat Party, 2012, 7″ x 8″. I don’t know what the best thing was about Jim Propp’s parties. They were a crystalline picture...
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Crazy-Beautiful Heart
Bill Knott’s primal poetry. Bill Knott, from the cover of I Am Flying Into Myself. I met Bill Knott in late 1968, or in early 1969, at William Corbett’s house, a gathering place for poets in...
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Ghost Club: Yeats’s and Dickens’s Secret Society of Spirits
Still from Fritz Lang’s Dr. Mabuse (1922). When it comes to ghosts, belief and outright disbelief are not the only options—or at least they weren’t in nineteenth-century Britain. The Victorians...
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Cambridge Diary, 2014
Photograph by J.D. Daniels. Saturday. July. 7:15 am Yoga. Translating Bayard’s Peut-on appliquer la littérature à la psychanalyse? from a Spanish copy of ¿Se puede aplicar la literatura al...
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