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Between 1800 and 1870, much of Latin America transformed itself from a colonial possession of an embattled European empire to a collection of independent states on the political and economic vanguard of an increasingly global economy. Where once the news from Spain arrived by sail on a voyage that could take months, by the late […]
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Outside my window, I can hear a bird – a tiny singing creature that raises larger profound and even now unanswered questions: why do birds sing? And what about our own arts of human music, speech and poetry? Where do they come from and what are they for? What are the origins of this love […]
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Our knowledge of Shakespeare in English-speaking countries has been shaped mostly by classroom instruction and to a much lesser extent by a few breakthrough films and live theater performances. His resulting reputation has remained stable for the last two hundred years, the writer acknowledged as the great English national poet and eminent darling of elite […]
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When we first started to think about small things, we found we couldn’t stop. Small things had always been there of course, but it was hard to stop thinking about them once we got started. It was, to be honest, surprising and felt just on the edge of embarrassing, as if we had accepted, somewhere […]
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It seems to be a contemporary truism that remembrance provides a comforting analgesic, if not a restorative, for the pain of loss. We seek refuge in the playground of memories to escape death’s increasing encroachments. In the early modern period, however, memory and mortality were intimate confederates. As Shakespeare exclaims, ‘Ruin hath taught me thus […]
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I first had the idea for this anthology right before the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. The 100 Poems series seemed like the perfect way to highlight both the progression of poetry about outer space over time, as well as many well-known and talented poets who have explored the topic in their poems. At […]
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From Hamlet to Sanjuro, duels, we believe, are climactic events in narratives; they are the vivid realization of an inevitable conflict between the participants’ opposing notions of honor or duty. But if you’re watching Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1943 masterpiece The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and expect its pivotal duel to include […]
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What was the impact of surveillance on writers? If a writer is under surveillance by secret police agents, and he or she knows it, does that change what he or she wrote? Would the literature be a reply, a repudiation, an angry answer to the surveillance? During the Cold war years, in several Latin American […]
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