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The Life and Times of the Literary Agent Georges Borchardt By Michael Meyer Paris ReviewMay 23, 2018 There’s a good chance Georges Borchardt was responsible for shepherding at least one of your favorite writers to publication. After immigrating to New York from war-torn France at age nineteen in 1947, Borchardt found work as an assistant at a literary agency. One of the first..

Walt Whitman, Poet of DemocracyBy Jorge Luis BorgesCommonwealMay 31, 2018 Walt Whitman at his home in Camden, NJ (Wikimedia Commons) This article originally appeared in the May 22, 1981 issue of Commonweal ONLY ONCE did I meet the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. I had gone to his home where we both began discussing literature extensively. Gradually I noticed that on the desk i..

Philip Roth, Towering Novelist Who Explored Lust, Jewish Life and America, Dies at 85 By Charles McGrath The New York Times May 22, 2018 Philip Roth, the prolific, protean, and often blackly comic novelist who was a pre-eminent figure in 20th-century literature, died on Tuesday night at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 85. The writer Judith Thurman, a close friend, said the cau..

<iframe src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-NTFVGQ3" height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden"></iframe> The Dead Zone Stephen King is one of the world’s most popular writers. Why isn’t his poetry more widely read? By Bev Vincent Poetry FoundationMay 21st, 2018 Bev Vincent is a contributing editor at Cemetery Dance magazine an..

Class & InequalityLeft Behind by Korea’s Success John Feffer May 15, 2018 Boston Review Hwang Sok-yong’s new novel sounds a warning about the pitfalls of Korean reunification. Familiar Things.................(한국어 원명: '낯익은 세상') Hwang Sok-yong (trans. Sora Kim-Russell) Scribe, $14.95 (paper) In South Korea these days, a popular dish at trendy restaurants i..

To Be or Not to Be by Megan Marz in Examined Life The Point, May, 2018 Her body, her choice. It’s the line men at marches chant to empower women, and with that empowerment comes responsibility. “Miles has said that the decision is mine,” the narrator of Sheila Heti’s new novel Motherhood says a few pages in. “If I want a child, we can have one, he said, but you have ..

[김호기의 100년에서 100년으로] 일제에 맞선 詩, 민족적 양심ㆍ실존적 성찰의 등불 되다 <11> 윤동주의 '하늘과 바람과 별과 시' 한국일보 2018.05.07 04:40 사후 남긴 단 한권의 시집 양심ㆍ자유ㆍ저항 등 실존적 고뇌 일제 강점기 후반 야만의 시대 더없이 드높았던 이상을 추구 윤동주는 ..

Whatever Happened to the Book Herman Melville Wrote After ‘Moby-Dick’? By June 1853, Herman Melville had taken ‘Isle of the Cross’ to his New York publisher. And that is the last time the finished manuscript was seen.Allison McNearneyDaily Beast, 04.28.18 10:56 PM ETBettmann Book publishing—like many commercial industries—is inherently a gamble. You can pick your fa..

"'채식주의자' 이어 '흰' 영어 번역에도 오류 많아"정상혁 기자 조선일보 입력 : 2018.05.02 03:00 | 수정 : 2018.05.02 11:30 맨부커 최종심 오른 한강 소설 '흰' '채식주의자' 논문쓴 김욱동 교수 '흰'에서도 어휘·문법 오류 발견 "韓문학 세계화위해 더 엄격해야" 맨부커 인터내셔널 최종 후보에 오..

T.S. Eliot Was A Terrible Hip-Hop Artist/Discoveries Eleanor Chandler & Joshie Mitchel; Grnata/April, 2018 The poetry world is abuzz this week in the wake of a controversial essay published in PN Review by British poet Rebecca Watts, denigrating a new generation of ‘amateur’ poets. She takes aim at ‘a cohort of young female poets who are currently being lauded by the poet..