Absurdism attracts me because it creates a strange, uneasy feeling that goes straight from the text to the body,” says Irina ...

A professor at Hunter College has built one of the largest special collections of contraband Russian literature in the world.

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I mention this because I suspect the world needs more poets and artists. And possibly fewer lawyers – although the lawyers I know are wonderful. Hymn-writer extraordinaire Charles Wesley maintained ...