Stories by apollinaire

9000 years ago, funerals in China involved a lot of beer

A Poet’s Dublin

Nothing but Sheer Racket: On the Music and Mind of Franz Liszt

Simone de Beauvoir’s Lost Novel of Early Love

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was ahead of her time

One French City

The death of the all-powerful director

A Literature on the Brink of Dawn

On the Trail of a Mysterious, Pseudonymous Author

The mild anarchy of piles of second-hand books

On the complex, vital role played by interpreters

Proust’s Madeleine Was Originally a Slice of Toast

The Politics of Fernando Pessoa

“The Wound Talks to You”: The Nightmares of John Berryman

Hiding in Plain Sight: Merle Oberon

Practical Cat: How T. S. Eliot became T. S. Eliot (2011)

The Abode of Madness

What’s wrong with Bob Dylan’s biographers?

Wit, Love and the ‘Other World’ in the Letters of James Merrill

Francis Bacon’s Frightening Beauty

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