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Poets on the Best Poems They Read in 2024 December 27, 2024
In the sea of endless year-end lists, poetry often seems to get sidelined, or forgotten—or maybe the critics and listmakers just aren’t reading enough poetry in the first place. Which made me wonder—what were the poets themselves reading this year? S...
One of the World’s Most Elusive Writers Still Haunts December 23, 2024
“Paul Celan’s poems reach us, but we miss them,” wrote the philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer, giving succinct expression to the allure of one of Europe’s most important postwar poets, who remains as intriguing as he is perplexing more than 50 years afte...
A Space Novel for Earth Lovers December 17, 2024
I’ve never been a space guy. Earth, like Robert Frost said, seems to be “the right place for love.” While I appreciate the ambition of those of us who want to travel to Mars, I’m not attracted to the idea because I’m not desperately in love with the ...
On Hannah Arendt's 'What Remains' December 09, 2024
For much of her life, the German philosopher Hannah Arendt, best known today for The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and her reporting and reflections on the trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961, wrote poetry that it seems she never thought to publish. ...
9 Books We’re Excited to Read in December 2024 December 09, 2024
It’s the last installment of our anticipated reads list for 2024, and we’re ending things with overseas literature from Buenos Aires to Palestine to Namibia to Venezuela, exciting returns from alt-lit icons, and non-fiction that pulls from past poems...
