SPECIAL Poetry Tuesday!: "Herbst" ("Autumn") by Rainer Maria Rilke (German)
Wir alle fallen. Diese Hand da fällt. Und sieh dir andre an: es ist in allen.
Wir alle fallen. Diese Hand da fällt. Und sieh dir andre an: es ist in allen.
Cartoonist Peter Bagge looks at Henry David Thoreau's life at Walden and beyond
"From here, we'll show the Swede our saber; / We'll build a city on the sea, / To better spite our haughty neighbor. / Our destiny is manifest -- / To cut a window to the West..."
« Et hue donc ! bourrique ! Sue donc, esclave ! Vis donc, damné ! »
In honor of my 100 YouTube subscribers, a special reading of a lovely Arthurian poem.
"When I consider men of golden talents, / I'm delighted, in my introverted way, / To discover, as I'm drawing up the balance, / How much we have in common, I and they...."
"Homme, libre penseur ! te crois-tu seul pensant / Dans ce monde où la vie éclate en toute chose ? / Des forces que tu tiens ta liberté dispose, / Mais de tous tes conseils l'univers est absent...."
Banishing him from library shelves is a slippery slope.
Where does this variation on Mithridatism come from?
Written at age 13 for his younger brother and sister: "A short direction / To avoid dejection, / By variations / In occupations, / And prolongation / Of relaxation, / And combinations / Of recreations..."
"We never pay any-one Dane-geld, / No matter how trifling the cost; / For the end of that game is oppression and shame, / And the nation that pays it is lost!"
"Я мечтою ловил уходящие тени, / Уходящие тени погасавшего дня..."
"I knew not which to make my pet, — my pipe, cigar, or cigarette..."
"love is more thicker than forget / more thinner than recall / more seldom than a wave is wet / more frequent than to fail..."
"Écoutez la voix du vent dans la nuit..."
"When you were a tadpole and I was a fish in the Paleozoic time..."
A second member of the small genre of poems pretending to be by the French poet François Villon.
In this age of Internet and social media, Emily Dickinson tells us to be as quiet as a volcano.
No, we should interrogate its persistent popularity and our relationship to it as forcefully as possible.
In a new collection of letters, the great Invisible Man author is further revealed.
The new memoir Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race is a powerful personal statement and national call to arms.
"I refuse to construct some kind of character who is going to appease everybody."
The tablets aren't supposed to replace regular books, but similar policies have led to restrictions on book donations and price-gouging in other states.
Director Mike Flanagan has made a Shining sequel that struggles to combine its two major influences.
Friday A/V Club: Ridley Scott wasn't the only director who filmed a Blade Runner in the Reagan years.
Trick of Light collaborator talks about working with a legend, the failings of online community, and the rise of cancel culture in the literary world.
The People v. Lawrence Ferlinghetti explains how America embraced free speech—and how we're ready to throw it away.
Joseph Heller's opus is drained of power in this tepid adaptation.
Like so many of the best socialist products, Marcus Pfister's The Rainbow Fish has been a runaway capitalist success