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I have a slow-moving but continuing project to try to read at least one significant work from all of the Nobel winners. With some of the laureates they have one clear work that stands above the rest -- Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth, for example -- while other more well known names like...

The London Review of Books just published a critical essay on David Foster Wallace written by Patricia Lockwood, ostensibly a review of his posthumous novella that came out last year but turns into an overarching critique of almost his entire body of work. It's also, of course, inspiring a lot...

I did a quick search and didn't find a dedicated thread to song lyrics, but I thought it'd be a worthwhile topic here, separate from the music thread in the off topic general chat. But I was reminded of a derail in the Louise Gluck thread awhile back that dovetailed into the complexity or lack...