Poet-Aches and Toothaches

Pains of the soul versus pains of the tooth. From Hans Christian Andersen’s story “Auntie Toothache,” found in the Penguin Classic compilation of his “Fairy Tales.”

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The Dictionary Art of William Kentridge

South African artist William Kentridge’s ink drawings on dictionary pages direct our attention

The Handmaid, and the Hurricane’s, Tale

I didn’t pack a book for our flight out of Hurricane Irma’s

I, too, Am America

“Langston Hughes, although only twenty-four years old, is already conspicuous in the