Great poetry leads the reader to fundamental truths. Reading Rilke during the lockdown has led Chintan Girish Modi to be patient amidst discomfort I love the hours after midnight because everything at ...

*Originally published on May 13, 2021. In his letters and poetry, Austrian writer Rainer Maria Rilke urged us to "love the questions" instead of searching for answers, and to "sing out" with pain ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The writer, scholar and critic William Gass has described translation as an act of reading: 'reading of ...

The long poem, if we rightly exclude the dramatic, comes in three varieties: narrative, including epic; philosophical, including existential; and metaphysical, including religious. And, of course, in ...

I inherited many books from my older brothers—esoteric books from the 1970s on running and weightlifting, and Pietro di ...

In February, 1903, a nineteen-year-old Austrian military cadet named Franz Xaver Kappus received a letter whose contents, he hoped, would teach him how to live. “The envelope,” he later wrote, “bore a ...