"When you’re famous and say you’re writing a book, people assume that it’s an autobiography—I was born here, raised there, suffered this, loved that, lost it all, got it back, the end. But that’s not what this is. I’ve never been a linear thinker, which is something you can see in my rhymes. They follow the jumpy logic of poetry and emotion, not the straight line of careful prose. My book is like that, too.”

The Cloud Corporation, Timothy Donnelly’s new collection of poems, is a difficult book. That is to say, it’s much more complex than the poetry I usually read. I’m a fan of talky poets, writers like Dean Young and Tony Hoagland who, even when they’re being opaque ...

A simple question: is it worth reading The Daily Princetonian to keep up on the ways in which it has embarrassed itself?

Sarah Palin is the politician Jonathan Swift would have imagined for this century if he were living in it. An attractive woman with some sort of strictly defined set of morals, she has exploded onto the scene because she is a masterful spin doctor, a skilled manipulator of her image ...

"We have a report of three men running out of the forest and chasing a vehicle, one of whom was wearing a trench coat and a hat.”

On Monday, November 22nd at 4:30pm in McCosh 50, Peruvian novelist, critic of authoritarian regimes, and recent winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature Mario Vargas Llosa will sit with acclaimed Irish poet Paul Muldoon to discuss Roger Casement, an Irishman well-known for his reports against human rights ...