May 2007
Sam Sacks laments the great divorce of Christianity from literature
You Eatee?
Steve Donoghue reviews John Donne: The Reformed Soul, a new “cuss-and-codpiece” biography by the inconceivably youthful John Stubbs
Two From Saturnalia Press
John Cotter looks into new mixed-media books of poetry by Bill Knott and John Yau to discover shades of meaning in the interplay of artwork and verse.
Absent Friends: That is Not Sad; This is Not Funny
In this monthly feature, Adam Golaski resurrects the poetry of Paul Hannigan in all its acerbic and ominous brilliance
Cabin
A poem by Jennifer L. Knox
Peer Review: Arms and the Pan
In this monthly feature, Steve Donoghue spots a troubling pattern of left-handed praise in the reviews of Robert Fagles new translation of the Aeneid
The Bard of Everybody
In a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s restoration of the famous First Folio, Garrett Handley investigates the maddening vagaries that have always confronted the Bard’s editors.
The Open Letters Quiz: The Number Five!
Celebrate the merry month of May with a quincunxial quiz by Steve Donoghue.
The Cover Photo for May, “Melbourne Skyline from Brighton,” is by Ranjit Doroszkiewicz, who is working in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. His photographs can be viewed at redinstallation.co.uk and red-exposure.co.uk.
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