The Case for Cultural Appropriation
How humans hybridize their civilizations
Features | January-February 2022
The Poet of Old Age
Donald Hall, chronicler of life
Alain Locke as activist aesthete
Rediscovering Alain Locke and the project of black self-realization
Adam Kirsch on Megan Marshall’s Elizabeth Bishop biography
Adam Kirsch reviews Megan Marshall’s biography of poet Elizabeth Bishop.
T.S. Eliot as a Harvard student
A rediscovery of the emerging poet
Montage | January-February 2014
Adam Kirsch reviews Lawrence Buell on the Great American Novel
A literary critic on the Great American Novel
Features | January-February 2014
Robert Frost revealed in his letters
Robert Frost’s “doubleness,” revealed in his letters—and poems.
Features | January-February 2012
The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, explored by Adam Kirsch
Adam Kirsch reads the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library—the latest stage in the “American conquest of the Middle Ages”
New collections of Elizabeth Bishop's poems, prose, and letters
New collections of poems, prose, and correspondence by Elizabeth Bishop
Adam Kirsch reviews "The Art of the Sonnet," by Stephen Burt and David Mikics
Adam Kirsch reviews The Art of the Sonnet, by Stephen Burt and David Mikics
Review of Maurice Charney's “Wrinkled Deep in Time”
Adam Kirsch review Maurice Charney’s Wrinkled Deep in Time: Aging in Shakespeare.
Montage | November-December 2009
Frederick Seidel’s new poetry collection reviewed
Adam Kirsch reviews Poems 1959-2009 by Frederick Seidel ’57