Kentridge doesn’t start with an idea, plan or storyboard. The gesture tells him what to do next—the sweep of charcoal across ...

The Booker-nominated author's new novel, The Elsewhereans, due out on Monday, traces memory, myth, history and the quest for ...

I spent years trying to be the black sheep of my family,’ Thayil says. He traces family dynamic, myth, memory, and the quest for home, in The Elsewhereans.

Brainwashing is often viewed as a Cold War relic—think '60s films like "The Manchurian Candidate" and "The IPCRESS File." ...

Robert Pinsky bids farewell to BU after 36 years, with a poetry party At 84, the former US Poet Laureate isn’t quite sure how he feels about his decision to retire. But he’s thankful for the ...

Joseph Stalin died in 1953, the same year The Captive Mind by the Polish poet, writer, and diplomat Czeslaw Milosz was published in the United States. It was the height of the Cold War between the ...

In an interview, Brooks observed that the 20 year gap between his first and second poetry collections was due to the influence of Czeslaw Milosz, who made him reflect on how “to situate my ...

In an interview, Brooks observed that the 20 year gap between his first and second poetry collections was due to the influence of Czeslaw Milosz , who made him reflect on how“to situate my ...

Joseph Brodsky, himself a Nobel Prize-winning poet, said, “I have no hesitation whatsoever in stating that Czeslaw Milosz is one of the greatest poets of our time, perhaps the greatest.” ...

Czeslaw Milosz — Polish-American poet and recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1980, Milosz was a professor of English at UC Berkeley. His fellow Berkeley professor, Robert Hass, translated ...

The man was the Polish Nobel Prize-winning poet and writer Czeslaw Milosz; the framed poem is Mise Raifteirí, by Antoine Ó Raifteirí.