The July-August 2018 issue Simon Armitage's Oxford Lecture on Elizabeth Bishop Two previously unpublished essays by Anthony Burgess John Clegg discovers the real characters behind the pub scene in Eliot's The Waste Land Vahni Capildeo picks up Ke...

Sextus Propertius, the late Augustan poet, is best known today from Pound's famous "Homage", less translation than brilliant experiment. Patrick Worsnip's new versions rise out of the Latin and brilliantly recreate the poet's voice, his life and love...

Receiving a call from the State Department that her daughter Pearl has been protesting global violence by chaining herself to a flagpole at the American embassy in Dublin and refusing to eat, liberal New Yorker and single mother Maria Meyers heads to...

Philosophy's relation to the act of writing is John T. Lysaker's main concern in "Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought". Whether in Plato, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, or Derrida, philosophy has come in many forms, and those forms...

How do poems and novels create a sense of mind? What does literary criticism say in conversation with other disciplines that address problems of consciousness? In "Paper Minds", Jonathan Kramnick takes up these vital questions, exploring the relation...

As the Christian doctrine of Incarnation asserts, "the Word became Flesh". Yet, while this metaphor is grounded in Christian tradition, its varied functions far exceed any purely theological import. It speaks to the nature of God just as much as to t...

Not for sale in Estonia! With "Psychology of the Rich Aunt", German author Erich Muhsam made his ironic bid for authorial immortality by announcing his discovery that immortality in fact exists – specifically in the person of the Rich Aunt. Through...

This engaging study explores how the works of Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, and others were taken up by caricaturists as a means of helping the eighteenth-century British public make sense of political issues, outrages, and personalities. The first in-...

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! For "The Pied Piper", Czech writer Viktor Dyk found his muse in the much retold medieval Saxon legend of the villainous, pipe-playing rat-catcher. Dyk uses the tale as a loose frame for hi...

We have become used to looking at art from a stance of detachment. In order to be objective, we create a "mental space" between ourselves and the objects of our investigation, separating internal and external worlds. This detachment dates back to the...