Literature

How the lyric poem can enable creative reimagining of a historical figure. Four poets discuss strategies and techniques, as well as the rewards and difficulties involved in writing a verse…

“Hands,” Leonardo Rizzi, Creative Commons When I attended Mass Before, the priest told us a few things: 1) If we were taking Communion, we could not allow the officiants to…

Interior, 1939, Vanessa Bell © 1961 estate of Vanessa Bell, courtesy Henrietta Garnett. Photo credit: Rochdale Arts & Heritage Service) The minute I expected the view from my window to…

1. These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home by Bayo Akomolafe (North Atlantic Books, 2017) “[E]verything begins in the middle. There are no…

How are you? I’m pretty sure we’re all so paralyzed with anxiety, we haven’t fully processed the cancellations and lost opportunities that the coronavirus pandemic is inflicting upon our careers…

We continue our “Best of 2019″ series curated by the entire Entropy community and present some of our favorite selections as nominated by the diverse staff and team here at…

[Plant Poetics and Beyond] A version of this paper was first shared at the 2019 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Conference on the Vegetal Feminist Experimental Creation…

Intro Wherein Chuck Greaves praises the erudition of Rex Stout, David Abrams hails Agatha Christie’s ability to breed distrust in teenagers, David Huddle discusses the shining sentences of J.D. Salinger,…

Did all friendships … involve this discreet and mysterious exchange of qualities, this exchange of power? –Zadie Smith, Swing Time   My friendship with Lila began the day we decided…

Intro Wherein Robert Burke Warren praises the magical minimalism of Alice Munro; Gregory Spatz reflects on the wild life–and still wilder work–of James Agee; Matthew Specktor muses on the wacky,…

A Review of Hulu’s Catch-22 and Prognostications for Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude Once upon a time, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller was, according to Vanity Fair, “one of the…

Intro Wherein Jamie Blaine celebrates the grit of Raymond Chandler, Jesi Bender praises the prose mastery of Carole Maso, Michael T. Fournier shares how Douglas Coupland saved him from a…

Intro Wherein Constance Squires shares how Iris Murdoch taught her not to be afraid of plot, Michael Gillan Maxwell discusses how Gary Snyder’s writing turned him on to philosophy, Sean…

Intro Wherein triple threat (writer/editor/bookseller) Kevin Sampsell praises the humor and honesty of Steven “Jesse” Bernstein, a writer gone too soon; author Samuel Snoek-Brown confesses his love for the one…