Imagine you—a well-studied, discerning critic—watching the film Airplane! and mistaking it for a sequel to Airport 1975. That is, imagine mistaking the spoof for the original. In 1916, Witter Bynner,… Read more »

Yesterday, we wrote at some length about Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan’s recent Nobel Lecture, in which NLBD, beatifically wearing his trademark colors of aloof bemusement, self-effacing grandiosity, serious good humor, and genial… Read more »

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain (Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire) A splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning (William Carlos Williams, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus) Jenny,… Read more »

Oh, hi. How was your weekend? Well you look terrific. Rested. Ready for another run of holding up and getting by, seven more days living under a president who’s basically… Read more »

The sun rises. The hills bloom into a deceptively tranquil dawn. Trumpopocene, Day Six. I speak only for myself when I say that I’m not ready to write much about… Read more »

In the Atlantic, Loyola University New Orleans professor Mark Yakich reflects on the way he and his students have thought about poems in his creative writing classes. What is the… Read more »

Faithful readers of MobyLives may recall last year’s sultry slideshow of writers in their underpants, including figures like Allen Ginsberg, Ernest Hemingway, Ray Bradbury, William Carlos Williams, and William Faulkner.… Read more »

On a recent afternoon, in the middle of some research for an upcoming book, I fell down a Google rabbit hole and landed on a Polish blog post with the… 1 / Read more »

This week Melville House celebrates the latest release in our series of Pepe Carvalho mysteries from Spanish author Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. In Off Side, the pressure is on Carvalho to find… Read more »