Edouard Manet, “Olympia”/ Beyonce, “Check On It”
Posted 3 weeks ago
season finale!! “DIAMONDS ARE MY ONLY FRIENDS”
Posted 4 months ago
Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar win National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award
Two giants of the feminist movement, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, have been named winners of the 2013 lifetime achievement award from the National Book Critics Circle. Their books, particularly The Madwoman in the Attic (1979) and The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (1985), changed the shape of literary criticism and influenced generations of students and scholars.
Read Ron Charles’ full writeup at the Washington Post.
Posted 5 months ago
Posted 6 months ago
W. W. Norton: The Snow
It sifts from leaden sieves,
It powders all the wood,
It fills with alabaster wool
The wrinkles of the road.It makes an even face
Of mountain and of plain, —
Unbroken forehead from the east
Unto the east again.It reaches to the fence,
It wraps it, rail by rail,
Till it is lost in fleeces;
It…
Posted 6 months ago
Storm
It sounded as if the streets were running,
And then the streets stood still.
Eclipse was all we could see at the window,
And awe was all we could feel.
By and by the boldest stole out of his covert,
To see if time was there.
Nature was in her beryl apron,
Mixing fresher air.-Emily Dickinson
Posted 7 months ago
To Crunk, To Crunkle: to cry like a crane.
Source: The New and complete American encyclopedia, 1820
Posted 7 months ago
Philosophy steps forth and insists that the soul is to be satisfied with abstractions. As if human nature were anything without its affections!
Henry Ware Jr, The Personality of the Deity
Posted 7 months ago
"Our hero shrieked and clutched at his head. Alas! This was what he had known for a long time would happen!" -Dostoevsky, closing lines of The Double
