2015 Man Booker Prize longlist How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it? Standing one evening at the w
The modernist masterpiecethat is Arthur Rimbaud’s Illuminations has been given new life with the publication of JohnAshbery’s “dazzling” (The Economist) new translation, widely hailed as one of thelit
A tale inspired by the life of the 12th-century abbess, composer and prophet depicts a young girl who upon being given to the Church rejects the order's masochistic piety and finds grace in studying b
Loren Eiseley (1907–77) is one of the most important American nature writers of the twentieth century and an admired practitioner of creative nonfiction. A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Eiseley was a p
(Easy Piano Personality). Josh Groban says that most of the songs on his Rick Rubin-produced CD are about "specific situations that I've had where love has existed and ultimately failed." Here are eas
First published in 1886, Arthur Rimbaud’s Illuminations?the work of a poet who had abandoned poetry before the age of twenty-one?changed the language of poetry. Hallucinatory and feverishly hermetic,
"If we are absolutely modern-and we are-it's because Rimbaud commanded us to be."-John Ashbery, from the prefaceFirst published in 1886, Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations─the work of a poet who had aband
The prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), have acquired enormous prestige among readers everywhere and have been a revolutionary influence on poetry in the twentieth c
Illuminations contains the most celebrated work of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and influential thinkers of the 20th Century: 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', 'The
