A dumpster arrived behind my university's library

Thomas Mann: Goethe Heartened by Panama (As Suez for English, or Danube-Rhine)

James Schuyler's Genius

The First Eighteen Lines of the Waste Land (1989)

Terrence Malick's Disciples

In Pursuit of Clancy Sigal (2021)

How sober should a writer be?

The Renegade Richard Foreman

The Talented Ms. Highsmith

What happened when REM went mainstream

Writing in Pictures: Richard Scarry and the art of children's literature

Jean Stein's Rolodex: The legendary editor's social genius

Renaissance Women

Emily Wilson Reimagined Homer

Lovecraft and Me – How cosmic horror gave me hope (2020)

Ahead of Time: On Poetry and Mourning

Remembering Benares

Geoff Dyer: The essayist on not having a career James Surowiecki

Theater of Shame – The rise of online humiliation

Camera Mortis: How photographs of the dead helped me mourn

The forgotten pleasures of analog media

The Power of Testimony: Why personal narrative has displaced fiction

Machado de Assis’s Afterlives

There I Almost Am

Thucydides in Times of Trouble (2020)