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Die Lyrik wird heftig denunziert wie keine andere Kunstform sonst. Sogar die Dichter:innen selbst scheinen sie zu missbilligen »Darin, dass sie Lyrik hassen, sind sich viel mehr Menschen einig, als sich darüber einigen können, was Lyrik überhaupt ist.«, schreibt Ben Lerner. »Ich mag sie auch nicht, habe aber mein Leben weitgehend um sie herum organisiert und empfinde das nicht als Widerspruch, weil Gedichte und der Hass auf die Lyrik für mich unentwirrbar miteinander verknüpft sind.« Auf welche Weise sie miteinander verknüpft sind, das wird hier in einem straffen Panorama...

Over the course of more than six decades as an author, journalist, and professor, Max Lerner studied and assessed many presidents, yet Thomas Jefferson received his most sustained attention. To Lerner, Jefferson came closest in the American context to Plato's "philosopher-king," the ideal thinker and leader. Because of his keen sense of Jefferson's virtues and his unique place in United States history, Lerner began work on a book about Jefferson in 1957, rewriting it several times throughout his life, always with the intention of introducing general readers to "a thinker and public figure...

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Winner of The Paris Review's 2012 Terry...

Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's "research" becomes a meditation on the possibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond: are his relationships with the people he meets in Spain as fraudulent as he fears...