Why are there more versions of 'Anna Karenina' (1878) in 2016? According to some translators "the best" will never be available and so translation must continue.
My mother was like a hermit crab who was busy moving out of its shell, and then only the shell was left. “Enjoy it, dear,” she said. She took to staring at the sky.
...then my attention came to rest again / on the reaching-me-clearly breaking / voice of a woman testifying // she thought fireworks / were going off in a theater...
A reader writes in about being "bombarded with everything from Thomas Aquinas to Thomas Aquinas" in college, and a law professor corrects the editors on labor laws.
Michael Moore tours the social democracies of Europe, assembling a piecemeal progressive utopia and contrasting it with the bleakness on our side of the Atlantic.
