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TRANSLATION--GODSONG
FICTION (INDIA)--SITAYANA
SOAR: A NOVEL
AMIT MAJMUDAR
Links to the
Kenyon Review
Blog
:
The Brains of Animals
Rimbaud the Prodigy
Why I am Inherently Evil
"The Authoress of the Odyssey"
The Nature of Authority
Video Games and Religion
"Deeply and Irreverently": How and What to Read
The Lost Books of Lord Byron
A Note on Sentimentality
Illustration of the Greek Concept of Fate
Esoteric and Exoteric: On Dickinson and Shakespeare
Epic Fail
In Praise of Agnosis
Believe What You Wish
About the Singularity
The Scripture Reads You
Life to the Image, Death to the Word
The Abundance
: OneWorld (UK) Q & A Excerpt
"Western" and "Modern"
Shakespeare's Mystical Rhyme: On "The Phoenix and the Turtle"
The Alternate Bard: On Shakespeare's Narrative Poems
The Importance of Telling a Good Story
Language as an Artistic Medium
To Know or Not to Know: On Eating Meat
The Literary Critic Considered as an Illuminator of Manuscripts
Entertainment and Excess: The Great Literary Audiences
Now or Never: The Writer and the Age
Albert Speer and the Berghof Omen
Riddle me This
The Two Gandhis
Life Alone Lives Forever: Quest Stories and the Principle of Irreplaceability
Parricide/Regicide/Deicide: A Few Notes on
The Brothers Karamazov
Three Tendencies in English Language Poetry
What is Truth?
Secret Credos of the Godless
On "Literary Fiction" and "Genre"
American Poetry Critics and Literary Memory
Constantly Protean: or, On Polytheism
Making it New while Keeping it Old
On Laurent Binet's HHhH
The Jack of All Modes
Riff on Goethe
Reason not the Need
Poetry and Entropy
The Reproductive Success of a Poem
The Reconquest of the Long Form
Victor Hugo and the Two Tolstoys
On Conceptual Poetry
James Bond and the Insufficiency of the World
The Two Unsurpassable Poems in the English Language
The Enduring Appeal of Jules Verne
The Unwritten Late Life Poetry of John Keats...
Notes on Capital-T Tragedy
Poetry, Prose, and Prosetry: Shakespeare's Hybrid Vigor
And Another Thing:
Matchup #1: O Rare Ben Jonson vs. a 15th-Century Welsh Poet
Reading List: Old-School Narrative Poems
Slits in the Cell Door
On Ruinability: "Momentary" by A. E. Stalllings
The Widening Circle: King, Gandhi, Christ
Two Philosophical Poets: On T. S. Eliot and Kay Ryan
And Shakespeare Begat Shakespeare
The Virtues of Bad Writing
The Art that Bears Repeating
Two Revisitings
Metaeuphoria: In Praise of Metaphor
Mythistory: or, Against Literalism
Hitchens as a Man of Letters
What's in a Name?
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Links to Essays Available Online:
George Steiner, Last of the Europeans
Her Seven Ingenious Masks
The Servant of Two Masters
Kepler's Snowflake
The Ludlum Identity