For the last seven or eight years, the thing I have read most often and most eagerly—more than history books, or novels, or short stories, or nerdy academic monographs, or The Economist—is ...

“I need you to understand something. I wrote this for you. I wrote this for you and only you. Everyone else who reads it doesn’t get it. They may think they get it, but they don’t. This is the sign ...

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The American poet Adrienne Rich once asked: “To say that a poet is responsive, responsible – what can that mean?” This question about poets bearing witness and being the “conscience” of their society ...