I used to boast to friends from abroad about the quality and availability of our institutions of higher education. I fear those boasts now sound like PR…
In 1976, Cambridge was a reasonable city in which to be poor. Even as a Full Professor, I could never afford to buy a house there now…
When you cut a robot, does it not bleed? Well, actually, it doesn’t…
Some works of art exert such a powerful gravitational pull they bend reality to their dreams…
What can we, as writers, offer a world appearing to invite another universal catastrophe, this time on an unprecedented scale?
Syria and its millions of refugees rarely make the news these days.
What is a conspiracy theory but an attempt by the powerless to identify those invisible vectors of force dictating so many of their life choices?
“My daily allowance will still be around $30,000 a day. It’s not what I’m used to, but I’ll adjust.”
While my editorial intention is simple to articulate, it was much easier to practice in the seventies and eighties.
DeLillo’s sentences operate on a vertical as well as a horizontal axis.
Some 2,500 other writers joined us in our efforts in the somewhat grandiose-sounding task of supporting democracy.
They are suffering so that Europe can live in peace.
Askold Melnyczuk’s book of stories, The Man Who Would Not Bow, appeared in 2021. His four novels have variously been named a New York Times Notable, an LA Times Best Books of the Year, and an Editor’s Choice by the American Library Association’s Booklist. He is also co-editor of From Three Worlds, an anthology of Ukrainian Writers. His published translations include work by Oksana Zabuzhko, Marjana Savka, Bohdan Boychuk, Ivan Drach, and Skovoroda. His shorter work, including essays, stories, and reviews, have appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Times, The Missouri Review, The Times Literary Supplement (London), The Los Angeles Times, The Harvard Review and elsewhere. He’s received a three-year Lila Wallace-Readers’ Digest Award in Fiction, the McGinnis Award in Fiction, and the George Garret Award from AWP for his contributions to the literary community. As founding editor of Agni he received PEN’s Magid Award for creating “one of America’s, and the world’s, leading literary journals.” Founding editor of Arrowsmith Press, he has taught at Boston University, Harvard, Bennington College and currently teaches at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Most recently he has been organizing readings in support of writers in Ukraine, as well as interviewing writers for his For the Record series which appears online at Agni Online (https://agnionline.bu.edu/blog/for-the-record-conversations- with-ukrainian-writers/), as well as on Arrowsmith Press’s website.