The Roberto Bolaño bike helmet

2666: the film

Jordan Davis on Lucille Clifton

Kenny Goldsmith’s ‘atrocity exhibition’

Talking with Amy King

Steve Benson:
Only So Much

Peter Riley on the NY School

5 poems by Miguel Hernández

The dreams of Italo Calvino

Cara Benson & Pattie McCarthy:
the social impact of innovative writing
& pedagogy

Craig Dworkin’s No Medium

Talking with Joan Margarit

John Ashbery:
Self-Portrait in Google Glass

Aram Saroyan:
reading with Rod McKuen

Talking with Daisy Fried

Workshopping Ulysses

Jaap Blonk being Jaap Blonk

Fred Wah:
Laureate this!

Trethewey’s back,
hoping that people will notice

Ghassan Zaqtan & Dave McFadden
win the Griffin

& a dyslexic author
wins the Carnegie Medal

Lay vs. lie
vs. the future of English

Talking with Randall Couch

And here also

Juliana Spahr on Prism
(in 2001!)

Even the quietists aren’t quiet enough
for Mark Edmundson

Julie Cohen:
A response to Mark Edmundson

Likewise from Seth Abramson

Carpe diem, but gently

The “unbearable” Sylvia Plath

Dorothea Lasky’s Thunderbird

Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here

Tea with Red Pine

A campaign
to bring American poetry
into German

The Poetry Drone

The literature of
police t-shirts

I don’t write enough because …

Analyzing digitized literature

Whither Walden?

Seth Abramson’s June review
of poetry books

Nicole Peyrafitte sings Frank O’Hara

Talking with Mary Jo Bang

Aspiring to be Walt Whitman

Killing poets

More fighting over Anne Frank

Civility & sex talk

Mary Ruefle’s Selected Poems

A profile of Daniel Bănulescu

Talking with Stephen Burt

Ilya Kutik:
Excerpts of Parshchikov
(in Russian)

Shakespeare’s laws

Shakespeare in Chicago
does it direct

Talking with Suzannah Showler

To a Mouse

Talking with Margaret Atwood

City Lights celebrates 60 years

Reading the Voynich manuscript

18^th century views of language

Telegram era ends Stop

OED adds tweet & e-book

Does Apple stand a chance
against the DOJ
over e-book pricing?

Apple throws publishers
under the bus

Saving the Comanche language

Russia’s most isolated dialect
turns up in Alaska

Dry tweets @ the Getty Research Center

Neil Gaiman
reading from
The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Best beautiful  young reader of poetry

Did Blake plagiarize Nancy Willard?

Claudia Emerson moves to VCU

Re-illustrating classic texts

Magic in Oakland

Gary Soto:
What poets are like

Spilling your guts for a poem

Talking with Rachel Kushner

Write the Great American Novel
in 10 stereotyped steps

Nation shocked to learn
Dan Brown
has bland taste in books

When Dan Brown
came to class

Self-publishing phenom
Amanda Hocking
makes $2M publishing deal

Epigrams
(part 1) (part 2)

University presses are under pressure

Publishers report e-book disputes with Apple

A performance piece
becomes a revolutionary act
in Turkey

Ai Weiwei:
privacy & incarceration

Berlin’s most upsetting monument

Riots @ Art Basel?

Le Corbusier comes to MoMA

Francesco Vezzoli’s The Trinity

Top 10 art docs
available on Netflix Instant

When this you see,
it’s Susan Bee

John Yau:
Laurel Nakadate meets her relatives

Playboy’s neon bunny
in Marfa, Texas

What is a Warhol?

Munch museum approved for Oslo

Shot artist may not paint again

Mice prefer Kandinsky

Talking with Kymia Nawabi
about winning Work of Art
18 months later

Basquiat: the musical

Gay as blackface
in Soderbergh’s Liberace biopic

Tackling film taboos with
Crispin Hellion Glover

Professional acting
is about comedy,
ergo Freud

David Byrne’s bad advice

Why pop musicians
are not nice people

The singing nun of Kathmandu

The first book of fashion

Bill Nye, science warrior

A view of the net
from 1981

Applause is a social contagion

Why we fear MOOCs

Cary Nelson:
Being a professor
will no longer be a viable career

The decline & fall of
the English major

The curriculum of the stacks

An oral history of robot wars

An internship in journalism

Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby

The coming Death of Venice

Portraits from the Titanic?
Nope, photos of abandoned schools in Philadelphia

Surprise:
Weed laws only exist to lock up black people