Books & Literature

People often say that hope is important as motivation to address the climate crisis. But I have something to admit: I have a tenuous...

Growing up in Brazil in the 1960s and 70s, I had no frame of reference for free speech. My Spanish mother had grown up...

From the Collection Soul Cake Despite furnaced treestranslating heaven, always it comes, kneeling to nothing:the angry, occult hoar of dread. My service is to pay itno mind,...

We have two kinds of relationships with strangers. In one, we don’t talk to them, don’t trust them, don’t invite them in if they...

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1940, John Steinbeck is awarded a Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath.  Juliet Faithfull remembers having...

James Romm Translates Classical Greek Poetry In the 5th century AD, a father in the Balkan city of Stobi was educating his son. Stobaeus (as...

Without meaning any disrespect to the now defunct noughties R&B trio Mis-Teeq, one would be hard pressed to think of many novels that open...

Not known for his humour, DH Lawrence thought of Lady Chatterley’s Lover as a serious novel about the sacred nature of sex. But some of...