Distilled in Brooklyn- A Fine Historical Novel

We treasure and enjoy some novelists because they offer us a world, and let us feel we can enter it like original inhabitants. It’s a going home, even if we’ve never been there before. I’ve heard of Americans so intoxicated by the novels of Thomas Hardy that they go to England just to visit what Read More

Distilled in Brooklyn— A Fine Historical Novel

We treasure and enjoy some novelists because they offer us a world, and let us feel we can enter it like original inhabitants. It’s a going home, even if we’ve never been there before. I’ve heard of Americans so intoxicated by the novels of Thomas Hardy that they go to England just to visit what Read More

Roll Over, Sophocles-Kunitz Is Now Oldest Poet Ever

The first thing you notice in Stanley Kunitz’s studio in his Cape Cod house is not the greenish Hermes 3000 typewriter, nor the narrow cot in the corner, nor even the long shelf of poetry that lines the wall. These are ordinary objects to be found in any writer’s study. What makes Mr. Kunitz’s room Read More