classical literature
Flaubert, snow, poverty, rhythm … the random musings of Anne Carson
It is thrillingly difficult to keep one’s balance in Carson’s topsy-turvy world as she meditates on a wide range of subjects in poetry, pictures and prose
A woman’s version of the Trojan War
The Iliad begins with a grudge and ends with a funeral. In between are passages, if not necessarily of boredom,…