If you are free and in or around Hyde Park , please consider attending one of the events at the University of Chicago's Literary Arts La...

Somehow, some way, I've made it to 17 years on here. Barely. As post tallies from the last several--7 especially--years have demonstrate...

Today, thanks to poet, translator and critic Rosa Alcalá , who curated the poems appearing on The  Academy of American Poets ' September...

The Translation Project's Black History Month tweet, from February 21, 2021,  highlighting my essay "Translating Poetry, Translatin...

A photo from our contract rally at Rutgers-Newark, April 2019 As J's Theater readers--if there still are any!--may have noted, las...

For the last decade or so, I have only occasionally read  Village Voice , mostly online, but once upon a time, when I was in my 20s and ...

James Baldwin (Associated Press) "Until my father died I thought I could do something else. I had wanted to be a musician, thought...

One of this site's perennials used to be my fall  Nobel  speculation posts. These would usually appear a week or so before the Swedi...

Sir Wilson Harris, with his final novel, The Ghost of Memory  (2006) Such is life, so death comes calling. Sir  Wilson Harris  (1921-...

CROSS-POSTED FROM FIELD RESEARCH STUDY GROUP A BLOG Below is a reply that author, blogger and educator Linda Norton sent back in Januar...

UPDATE: The full and corrected version of this essay is now up at LitHub , as " Elements of Literary Style. " I'm keeping the...

A screenshot of my very first post, from February 27, 2005 (Copyright © J's Theater) On this date thirteen years ago, I started b...

Photograph by Dana Gluckstein / MPTV Images via  New Yorker Let me start my note about  Ursula K. Le Guin  (1929-2018) by pointing out...

Recently I chatted with writer Mark Sussman  for a short feature that has now posted at  The Creative Independent , under the title ...

This is a cross-posting , with a few revisions, from my other blog, the site for  Field Research Study Group A , where I've shared inf...