It is with sorrow that I report the passing of  Bernard Hoepffner (1946-2017), the belauded French translator of many Anglophone authors ...

Yves Bonnefoy at the Collège de France in 2001 ( The Telegraph /AP/Getty) On July 1 of this year, one of the most important--arguabl...

Patrick Modiano (© SIPA) For many years, as some of my students will attest, I have shared with them my ongoing fascination with writer...

As part of my preparatory remarks before my reading at Naropa University , I noted a "horrible" conference I'd attended only ...

Mallarmé, by Whistler, 1893 I really did think about posting about the various things happening today (the debt limit talks fiasco; the ...

I can hardly believe August is already here. Just two weeks ago I realized graduation was only a month ago, though it's sometimes felt ...

Happy Harvey Milk Day! **** Five years back, after learning of his death, I wrote about Guillaume Dustan (1965-2005) , the enfant terrib...

(Updated with YouTube video below) One of the big non- Super Bowl buzzes yesterday was the suggestion that New York governor David Paters...

Recently I finished and sent off a draft of an essay I'd been working on for a good portion of the summer. I don't actually write th...

Slowly and assuredly the academic year clanks to its end. I'm pretty much dragging myself around at this point, which is one of the reas...

During an overseas trip a few years ago, I picked up several books, by Erik Remès, Nicolas Pages, Djallil Djellad, and Michel Zumkir, which ...