Favorite Poem: Arnaldo Testi
April 21, 2010
Don’t ask me for words by Eugenio Montale (Genoa, 1896 – Milan, 1981; Nobel Prize for Literature, 1975) Don’t ask me for words that might define our formless soul, publish… READ MORE
Category: Literary Studies
Favorite Poem: Michael Bérubé
April 20, 2010
Byzantium by W. B. Yeats The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor’s drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers’ song After great cathedral gong; A starlit or a… READ MORE
NYU Press Authors Pick Their Favorite Poems
April 19, 2010
In celebration of National Poetry Month, From the Square will feature NYU Press authors selecting and discussing their favorite poems. Come back every day for a new poem! Participating authors:… READ MORE
Paperback Little Rebels in PopMatters
April 13, 2010
Jeremy Estes put up an insightful review of Tales for Little Rebels at PopMatters. The paperback edition is brand new! The model the editors point to is the New England… READ MORE
Lorca’s Sleepless City (Brooklyn Bridge Nocturne)
April 9, 2010
“Sleepless City (Brooklyn Bridge Nocturne)” [1940] by Federico García Lorca, Greg Simon and Steven F. White, trans., 1998 from Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn Out in the sky, no one… READ MORE
Times Higher Education Book of the Week: No University Is an Island
March 5, 2010
Take a look at their thoughtful, powerful review of Cary Nelson’s No University is an Island: Saving Academic Freedom. “[Nelson’s] devotion to all that higher education stands for at its… READ MORE
De Night in de Front from Chreesmas: A Yiddish Cartoon
January 4, 2010
A fantastic audio slide show from Is Diss a System?: A Milt Gross Comic Reader (Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History) has been put up at Tablet Magazine, featuring a… READ MORE
Stanley Fish: The Post-PC University
December 1, 2009
In a NYTimes online op-ed, Stanley Fish compares Cary Nelson’s forthcoming No University is an Island with another study of political correctness at universities. He offers high praise for Nelson’s… READ MORE