Trump’s ‘Cultural Revolution’ purges trigger alarming echoes of Mao
The Trump regime's purges of bureaucrats and educators over issues like diversity offer scary similarities to China's 1960s ...
The Paris Review23h
The Image of the Doll: Tove Ditlevsen’s Worn-Out Language
If we read Ditlevsen’s poems through the lens of Lessing, you could say that Ditlevsen’s so-called sentimentality is a poetic anachronism that functions as a subversive tool, an anachronism on a par ...
The Bulwark16h
The Poetry of Bombs and Trenches and Mustard Gas
Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...
Smithsonian Magazine6h
How the Theme Song From a Maligned Martin Scorsese Movie Became New York City’s Unofficial Anthem
Frank Sinatra’s rendition of “Theme From New York, New York” still raises spirits through challenging times and marks joyous ...