Reading one’s own old books is always a queer sentimental experience…
Read MoreThe foundation of good fiction is character-creating, and nothing else…
Read MoreWith these impedimenta carefully corded up in a strong deal box I felt myself equal to any photographic emergency…
Read MoreEdmund Gosse’s Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments was anonymously published in 1907 and faced immediate backlash in England due to its apparent criticism of Victorian morality.
Read MoreThe qualifying poem by each of these finalists will be published at Berfrois in the coming two weeks. Each finalist has submitted four more poems to Berfrois, and the winner of the 2015 Berfrois Poetry Prize will be selected on the basis of the finalists’ five-poem portfolios.
Read MoreUnleashed on social networks, the first sentence becomes a sign of recognition, a knowing wink, a cabalistic sign between insiders…
Read MoreDynamics and architecture: the very attributes required for making an Internet, a universe, an emergent God, a creation, certainly a poem…
Read MoreTen years have passed since poet, essayist and interviewer Russell Bennetts founded Berfrois, drawing its rather gallic name from the Old English term for the dais on which jousts were viewed.
Read MoreLa Nueva Novela [The New Novel] is a challenge starting from its title. Neither new nor a novel—putting it firmly in a line of puzzling Chilean monikers like Isla Negra…
Read MoreLife experienced narratively, which is to say the only way actual life can be experienced, continually deletes the immediacy of the transitory, but in depicting the specifically of the second within the crystalline moment artists reendow the present with meaning.
Read MoreWhat are the responsibilities of scholars and artists in a time of political crisis and militant nationalism? This dilemma confronts us today, just as it did French writers during the Second World War.
Read MoreHerman Husband – itinerant preacher, politician, regulator, radical – would amble among the woods surrounding Pittsburgh. Here on the trans-Appalachian frontier, the native North Carolinian with his shoddy patchwork clothes and with his biblically long beard.
Read Moreby Rachel O’Dwyer and Linda Doyle Introduction In The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society is Coming Online, editor of Wired magazine Kevin Kelly (2009) argues that the collaborative cultures emerging around web 2.0 platforms cultivate a “digital socialism”, with broad political and economic implications for the producers of online culture. Kelly, alongside others, sees the…
Read Moreby Gérard Bertrand The Old Castle The old castle often loomed in Kafka’s dreams. Kafka at the Hopper home Although he had been invited, Franz Kafka nonetheless had the disagreeable sensation of not being welcome at the Hopper home. Vassili K.’s workshop A frequent visitor of Vassili K.’s workshop, Franz Kafka, aged twenty-three at the…
Read MoreOlena Kalytiak Davis, photograph by Gerard Malanga by Nicholas Rombes What I said at the end last time, about how my friend K. never showed up at the bar, wasn’t exactly true. He did show up, disheveled and unshaven, his black hair long and a little greasy and almost curling, his eyes hollow and out-of-the…
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