A vital tradition in Spanish poetry unites politics, eroticism, and surrealism in a way few poets writing in English have attempted, let alone managed. Francisco Alarcûn’s poems join those of Pablo Neruda, Cesar Vallejo, Federico... Read More

The sub-genre of baseball-related poetry is probably one of the most under-appreciated in the great tradition of poetry and literature. “No matter how good a baseball poem is,” the editors write in the introduction, “some will... Read More

Technology transforms the present into the future, sometimes luring the willing into new realms of capability, often yanking the reluctant into new means of productivity. In the entertainment sector, the strength of technology is... Read More

“I wrote not to be fed, but to be famous,” declared Sterne, and in bursting onto the London literary scene in 1760, with the publication of the first two volumes of Tristram Shandy (“an Anglican vicar’s bawdy novel”), he won a... Read More

Igniting the masses in conflict, the emergence of cremation as a death rite has consumed the last century of American history in flames of debate and plumes of literary metaphor. Yet, with growing acceptance of cremation, the rigid... Read More

The eighteenth century English actress Sarah Siddons has once again taken the stage. Appearing first at the Getty Museum this summer in an art exhibition of ten portraits of her in various roles, she now stars in a volume of essays... Read More

One should not judge a book by its cover, but this handsomely bound volume deserves to be admired for itself. Its dark cloth cover with a single woodcut affixed, its letter type styles for chapter headings with extra decorative... Read More

Historians and general readers will welcome Frugé and Harlow’s well-illustrated, fully annotated translation of Duhaut-Cilly’s journals of his 1826-1829 trading voyage. The French captain’s two years in Alta and Baja California... Read More