Are we living in the age of the phallus? From Trump’s ever expanding phallic gestures to the number […]
Category Archive: Close Reading
In the heart of Brontë country in Yorkshire, an unexpected gathering: men, naked, reading Victorian novels to an audience […]
David Hollingshead: Hi Jane! I’m sorry to leave you in the lurch at the eleventh hour but unfortunately […]
Time hovers o’er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the Passages of Joy. June is upon – […]
You may remember the “Romans Go Home” scene from Monty Python’s Life of Brian. In the dead of […]
I study the history of rhetoric, something that has made me intimately, painfully aware of the long history […]
On the Tuesday before Inauguration Day, a fake news cycle briefly claimed that the poem “Pibroch for the […]
For a while in the mid-1970s, my most reliable companion was a round yellow Panasonic Toot-a-Loop “bracelet” radio. […]