Poetry

Whatever Happened to Light Verse?

A paean to a disappearing and misunderstood literary tradition.

Kevin Mims

21 Jan 2023 · 21 min read

The End of War Poetry

Among literary forms, war poetry is unusual for having enjoyed a universally acknowledged and tightly defined golden age.

Simon Evans

17 May 2022 · 9 min read

The great conflict within the Left during the 19th century was between anarchist and statist visions for socialism (this was the bone of contention between Bakunin and Marx, and for many revolutionaries long after).

Jared Marcel Pollen

12 Feb 2021 · 11 min read

R.M. Vaughan (1965–2020): A Beautiful Mind Silently Extinguished in a Time of Fear

We were Oscar Wilde’s great-grand-nephews, dandy aesthetes obsessed as much with the curl of our hair as with art or politics.

Sky Gilbert

6 Nov 2020 · 8 min read

The Misguided Campaign Against Journalistic Objectivity

Even historians, who have many years to consider the object of their study, inhabit “the twilight of probability.” How can those journalists tasked with writing “history’s first draft” imagine that they know which way true “harm” lies?

Lorraine Clark

1 Oct 2020 · 7 min read

‘Things You Should Be Aware Of’: A Pandemic Prose Poem

It’s more important to fight racism than to stop the spread of the disease.

Stephen Elliott

22 Jun 2020 · 5 min read

The Million-Petalled Flower

He had the gift of producing them by inverting or adapting cliché to give it new life.

Andrew Gleeson

4 Dec 2019 · 15 min read

In Praise of Sylvia Plath's Forgotten (Sorority) Sister

A tragic early death can do wonders for a writer’s reputation. On October 27, Google dedicated its search page to the late Sylvia Plath, who would have turned 87 that day, had she not taken her own life, at the age of 30, back in 1963. It seems unlikely

Kevin Mims

28 Oct 2019 · 8 min read