Literature - The Curator Magazine (Page 31)

A Passion for the Possible

Jul 15, 2011 6 min read Literature Music & Performing Arts the Road

I spend a lot of time listening to music and reading at the same time. I’m not proud of this behavior—I end up giving neither music nor book the attention it

Choose Your Words

Jul 1, 2011 5 min read Literature poetry Psalms Robert Frost Wendell Berry

One of the most striking tiny details in Madeleine L’Engle’s [http://marriage.about.com/od/thearts/a/mlengle.htm]bracing and beautiful memoir, Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage [http:

You Write Like a Girl

Jun 24, 2011 6 min read Literature Virginia Woolf

Is there such a thing as writing “like a woman” or writing “like a man”? Virginia Woolf asked this question in 1929. Book critic Francine Prose asked it [http://www.harpers.org/archive/

Where Are We Now?

May 6, 2011 7 min read Literature Music & Performing Arts Visual Art poetry romanticism smartphone

The image to the left it Caspar David Friedrich’s painting “The Wanderer Above the Mists”: that quintessentially Romantic image. In it, the solitary, heroic individual stands with his back to civilization, facing

To Tame a Friend

Apr 1, 2011 4 min read Humanity Literature The Grapes of Wrath The Little Prince Where the Red Fern Grows

Last summer, a feral cat gave birth under our deck. My kids and my husband were delighted, but I predicted future trouble: waste in the sandbox, an influx of coyotes. I proclaimed that