Ignored but persistent, Bosco Helly’s poetry takes pointlessness to a new level

Fail Again Fail Even Better – The Struggles of an Obscure Irish Poet, by Karl MacDermott, published by Troubador Publishing, ...
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Rick Steves: Booking it through Europe with the top literary travel stops

From pubs to museums to libraries, if you decide to target the literary culture of Europe, the entire continent can be a good ...
Hyperallergic

Michael David’s Art Gazes Back at Us

Instead of depicting objects, David’s shattered glass artworks literally mirror the viewer — looking into them, we are ...
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Exclusive: Deliver Me from Nowhere author helped bring Bruce Springsteen’s unconventional hero story to the big screen

That’s the title of Chinua [Achebe’s] great novel, and he got it from, if I’m not mistaken, a William Butler Yeats poem. When ...
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Let poetry speak: The transience of life in Autumn poems

For centuries, poets have turned to autumn as a mirror for the human condition, a season oscillating between abundance and ...
The New York Times

The Essential Joan Didion

Her distinctive prose and sharp eye were tuned to an outsider’s frequency, telling us about ourselves in essays that are almost reflexively skeptical. Here’s where to start. Credit...John Bryson/Getty ...
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Almost 2,000 soldiers from the 36th Ulster Division died on the first day of the Somme campaign. When it was withdrawn from the line, the division had won a reputation as courageous soldiers. The men ...