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Editor's Note: This is the third installment in a three-part essay. To read the first two installments visit these links: Part I and Part II. The ice caps are melting: criticism has failed....

Asking how my criticism relates to my poetry is like asking how my obsessions relate to my compulsions. It’s a question I’m much too glad to answer. I like Jhumpa...

Why is it that the encounter with a text, which stimulates what must be thinking—an alert fullness; the wary thrill of standing a little beyond oneself; emergent novelty; the threat...

At Paris Review, Seamus Perry divulges one little-known secret about W.H. Auden: he was a messy roommate.

At Lit Hub, Emily Temple writes about the time J.R.R. Tolkien refused W. H. Auden's offer to write about him.

At NPR, Maureen Corrigan reviews Ian Sansom's September 1, 1939: A Biography of a Poem.

Toby Faber tells Literary Hub's readers about a few of the publishing house's most notable rejections, including T.S. Eliot's rejection of W.H. Auden and T.S. Eliot's rejection of James Joyce.

At New York Review of Books, Edward Mendelson writes about a moment when W.H. Auden and editors at Random House argued extensively about whether or not to give a platform to...

Yesterday was Hannah Arendt's birthday, and to celebrate, Literary Hub published a piece from Thinking Without a Banister: Essays in Understanding, 1953 – 1975 (Schocken Books, 2018), edited by Jerome Kohn, about...

At Literary Hub, Nick Ripatrazone watches Don Owen's 1962 directorial debut, Runner, a film commissioned by the National Film Board of Canada, about Toronto runner Bruce Kidd. In this film, Kidd is training...