Consumers of poetry no longer want intellectual rigor. They want the poet’s trauma, millennial irony, and wink-wink cleverness... more »
In his fiction, Kafka satirized artistic representation. In his life, he immersed himself in images ... more »
Leon Wieseltier on intersectional environmentalism: “To argue that the hole in the ozone layer was made by racism is to play into the hands of the hole-punchers” ... more »