BEST YEARS OF YOUR LIFE
Back to literary school! Start studying for the test.
Tuesday, September 4th, 2012
Insulting Words
A writer’s meanest critics are other writers. Take the test: who penned these scathing lines about whom?
Monday, July 4th, 2011Translating Pasternak
The problems of putting Russian poetry into English.
Monday, February 28th, 2011Raffaella Barker
Talking to a novelist about the art of naming fictional characters.
Monday, December 6th, 2010
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—
Johann von Goethe,
chosen by Alex Berg