jennifer schuessler
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Not a Healer
I thought, why not write the book that really scares you? At the New York Times, Jennifer Schuessler talks with Colson Whitehead about his new book, The Underground Railroad, which features the underground railroad literalized as a railroad, underground.
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He Never Sleeps, The Judge
In the wake of Justice Antonin Scalia’s passing, many online commenters have critically examined his record of pro-choice and anti-LGBTQ positions in pivotal Supreme Court cases. Others have examined his penchant for colorful, literary language in court opinions: jiggery-pokery, argle-bargle,…
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The Wheelbarrow is Real
When we read this poem in an anthology, we tend not to think of the chickens as real chickens, but as platonic chickens, some ideal thing,” William Logan, the scholar who recently discovered Mr. Marshall’s identity, said in an interview.…
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The Roots of the Paperback
“Gutenberg may have invented the movable-type printing press,” but the father of the paperback is a different man: Aldus Manutius. As reported in the New York Times, an exhibition opened at the Grolier Club in Manhattan this week to commemorate…
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Who are the Poet Laureates?
After the recent dust-up over North Carolina’s poet laureate, the New York Times takes a look at 45 state poet laureates to see who they are and just what exactly it is they do.