Reading Time: 1 Min. For 1,500 years, no writer except Virgil held more esteem in the classical world than Seneca . And today? “We read every major tragedian in the Western tradition, except Seneca,” says poet and author Dana Gioia , a former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. “If Seneca’s plays survived […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. Peng (right) attends the Indie Bookstore Festival held in Wuhan, Hubei province, in April. [Photo provided to China Daily] On business trips, Peng always took small books with him, and finished reading one each day. On the surface, he was a salesman traveling around to sell products, but actually he was […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. THE VEGAN, by Andrew Lipstein We should all be feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote, and at this point in climate change, we should probably also all be vegans (at least for part of the week). But in Andrew Lipstein’s ingenious second novel, avoiding meat and dairy is a sign that something […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. By Peg Aloi The Lesson is well-crafted, infused with nervy suspense and an almost Gothic sense of unease. The Lesson , directed by Alice Troughton. Screening AMC Boston Common 19 and Kendall Square Cinema. Julie Delpy and Daryl McCormack in The Lesson. Photo: Anna Patarakina Films about famous writers tend to […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. Arthur Miller Writing Studio board members Sarah Griswold, left, Davyne Verstandig, center, and Marc Olivieri chat in the late playwright’s former studio in Roxbury, Connecticut. (Susan Haigh/The Associated Press) By Susan Haigh The Associated Press ROXBURY, Conn. — After breakfast each morning, renowned playwright Arthur Miller would walk up a grassy […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. For this installment in a series of interviews with contemporary poets, contributing editor Peter Mishler corresponded with Sara Deniz Akant. Akant is a Turkish-American poet, educator, and performer. She is the author of Hyperphantasia (Rescue Press 2022, NYT Best Books 2022), Babette (Rescue Press 2015, winner of the Black Box prize), […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. “The green gold is the living quality which the alchemists saw not only in man but also in inorganic nature. It is an expression of the life spirit, the anima mundi or filius macrocosmi , the Anthropos who animates the whole cosmos. This spirit has poured himself into everything, even into […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. In their new memoir, Daddy Boy (McSweeney’s, 2023), Emerson Whitney chronicles his time on a storm-chasing tour through Tornado Alley as they think through familial relationships, weather, transness, and questions of control and submission. In conversation with World Voices Festival Associate Director Sabir Sultan for this week’s PEN Ten , Emerson […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. Credit…Rebecca Clarke “I regret that I never met Hilary Mantel,” says the Booker-winning Scottish novelist, whose most recent book, “Young Mungo,” is now out in paperback. “I would be delighted with three of her.” What books are on your night stand? I’ve been itinerant lately, so I tend to carry my […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. This week on The Maris Review , Sarah Viren joins Maris Kreizman to discuss To Name the Bigger Lie , out now from Scribner. Subscribe and download the episode , wherever you get your podcasts. Episode 212: Sarah Viren Forward 15 seconds Back 15 seconds Share Subscribe Description * from the […]
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