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David Orr: Lost in the Archives, Summer 1996
A. R. Ammons. “Locality,” said Frost, “gives art.” It’s an aphorism that directs us toward, well, directions. But when we’re talking about space, we’re also usually talking about time—which means it’s...
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Love and Poetry
My first date with Luke started at four in the afternoon—and at midnight, we were still going. Sitting on stools at Frank’s Cocktail Lounge (a bar that feels like a holdover from the seventies, right...
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Mimes, Tattoos, and Whales
The Mime Alphabet Book and other odd titles. Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies: Man Booker Prize winners and now BBC miniseries and stage plays, too. This children’s librarian has...
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All the Difference
We were excited to learn, on this the fiftieth anniversary of his death, of the new cache of Robert Frost documents that has come to light. The letters, photographs, and recordings come from the...
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Happy Birthday, Robert Frost
“See, I haven’t led a literary life. These fellows, they really work away with their prose trying to describe themselves and understand themselves, and so on. I don’t do that. I don’t want to know too...
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Men, Women, Dante, and Other News
GQ suggested the books every man should read. So then Flavorwire amended their list. You could, of course, also stick to Robert Frost’s favorite books. (If you like the classics.) Women, meanwhile,...
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Small Island: An Interview with Nathaniel Philbrick
Nathaniel Philbrick has written six books on United States history, most of which take place on or by the sea. In 2000, his In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex—about the sunken...
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William Wordsworth’s “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways”
One recent evening, my father and I were sharing a bottle of wine when our conversation turned, as if often does, to his father. We like to call my paternal grandfather “the Judge,” and we use this...
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I Found My Thrill
Down among the counties that help earn New Jersey its Garden State moniker, there lies the hamlet of New Egypt. Within it is the sixty-acre blueberry patch my grandparents used to own. Drive down I-95...
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Frost Papers Recovered, and Other News
New York’s Center for Jewish History is opening the David Berg Rare Book Room, which will feature, amongst others, Albert Einstein, Franz Kafka, and Emma Lazarus. A Vermont man has pleaded guilty to...
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La Vie Bohème
Robert Frost was born on this day in 1874. Robert Frost, the poet and novice martial artist. Photo: Walter Albertin FROST Among other things, what [Ezra] Pound did was show me bohemia. INTERVIEWER Was...
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Calm Down with Some Landscapes, and Other News
Li Shan, Wind and Snow in the Fir Pines, mid-twelfth to early-thirteenth century Robert Frost: the least understood of the great modernists. Marshall McLuhan: the most understanding of early teenagers....
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Mending Wall
Photo: Nigel Mykura Colette once wrote that it’s impossible to write about love while you’re in it. (I’m paraphrasing.) I think the same is true of depression, although for different reasons. Love is...
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Conservative Radicals
Frost on Meet the Press in 1955. First, a general note: At what point do we stop celebrating the birthdays of the deceased? Yes, Robert Frost was born on this day in 1874, and yes, that would make him...
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Architectural Blasphemy, and Other News
Le Corbusier’s Dom-Ino House, 1914. Readings from Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, and Czesław Miłosz are among the new recordings released by the Library of Congress,...
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Staff Picks: Peasantry, Propaganda, Playground Crises
A still from Forbidden Films: a nitrate film vault in the Federal Film Archive in Hoppegarten, Germany. After several years of hearing Norwegians describe Dag Solstad as their greatest living novelist,...
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The Most Misread Poem in America
Everyone knows Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”—and almost everyone gets it wrong.Frost in 1913.From The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong, a...
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory
Robert Frost on a 1974 postage stamp.From “Dabbling in Corruption,” an essay by W. D. Snodgrass, in our Spring 1994 issue. Snodgrass was born on this day in 1926; he died in 2009. Here, he recalls...
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Me for the Woods
A woodcut by Ethelbert White for a Penguin paperback edition of Walden. This July, as the festivities in honor of Thoreau’s two-hundredth birthday commence, pilgrims will make their way to what’s...
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Chinese Rhymes
Everybody who cares anything for old poetry in English knows how it feels—knows how awful it feels—when a poem is rhyming away and then suddenly the rhyme goes off the rails for a second because...
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