Shuntaro Tanikawa has been the most inventive modern Japanese poet, ever since he published "Two Billion Light Years of Solitude" (1952), his first book, aged twenty one. Undamaged by Japan's post-War trauma, he took up the language and ran with it....

Tolstoy produced many drafts of "Anna Karenina". Crafting and recrafting each sentence with careful intent, his use of language was anything but casual. His project, translator Marian Schwartz observes, "was to bend language to his will, as an instru...

The work of poet Georg Trakl, a leading Austrian-German expressionist, has been praised by many, including his contemporaries Rainer Maria Rilke and Else Lasker-Schuler, as well as his patron Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein famously wrote that whil...

"Plash & Levitation" delves into the chaotic sublime of fatherhood, the candid revelations of youth, and the lingering consequences of history. Adam Tavel's revealing and imaginative poems are joined by fictional monologues from historical figures an...

Howard L. Terry wrote a novel between 1917 and 1922, which he donated to the Gallaudet University Archives in 1951. There it rested until a resurgence of interest in Deaf literature led to its recent rediscovery. Mickey's "Harvest: A Novel of a Deaf...

Lucy Tunstall's striking debut collection features a cast of characters ranging from Paul Muldoon and Marianne Moore to Aunt Jane, who fell in love "in 1956, or thereabouts", and Cousin Gillian, who keeps the family's long-case clock in her caravan (...

Following his irreverent Oulipian reworking of Shakespeare's Sonnets, in his new book Philip Terry takes on Dante's Inferno, shifting the action from the twelfth century to the present day and relocating it to the modern "walled city" of the Universi...

James Boswell (1740-1795), best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson, was also a lawyer, journalist, diarist and an insightful chronicler of a pivotal epoch in Western history. This fascinating collection, edited by Paul Tankard, presents a gene...

For Dante and Petrarch, posthumous love was a powerful conviction. Like many of their contemporaries, both poets envisioned their encounters with their beloved in heaven – Dante with Beatrice, Petrarch with Laura. But as Ramie Targoff reveals in this...

According to the seventeenth-century herbarium "The Garden of Eden", a "missel-child" is a mysterious being found beneath a mistletoe-covered tree – a changeling, perhaps, "whereof many strange things are conceived". Helen Tookey's first full collect...