"When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over-like this world, and some of the people in it." In 1819, the poet John Keats wrote six poems that would become known as the Great Odes. Some of them-"Ode to a Nightingale," "To Autumn"-are among the most celebrated poems in the English language. Anahid Nersessian here collects and elucidates each of the odes and offers a meditative, personal essay in response to each, revealing why these poems still have so much to say to us, especially in a time of ongoing political crisis. Her Keats is an...

Document Series #11 Nour Mobarakâs Dafne Phono is an adaptation of the first opera, Dafne, composed and written by Jacopo Peri and Ottavio Rinuccini in 1598. Drawing on the myth of Daphne and Apollo from Ovidâs Metamorphosesâa story of unrequited love, patriarchal possession, conquest, and transformationâMobarakâs multimedia and multispecies reimagining splinters the operaâs Italian libretto. Alongside English and Greek versions, it is translated into some of the worldâs most phonetically complex languagesâAbkhaz, San Juan Quiahije Eastern Chatino, Silbo Gomero, and !Xoonâand Ovidâs...