’VE OFTEN BEEN baffled by how difficult it can be to engage people—even literary folk—on the subject of tragedy and its disappearance from the modern era. When it comes to …
HE PUBLICATION OF a book by Christian Wiman is always an event. One of our leading poets and public intellectuals, he is a writer who, whether he is working in …
OR YEARS NOW, reviewers of Tim Winton’s books have been bemoaning how little known and read he is in North America. So let me add my voice to the chorus. …