Stephen Kessler

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... This column will appear in print on July 4, the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Around this time in 1984 I was in Havana at a meeting of North, Central, South American and

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Poor Pete Hegseth. Our supermanly secretary of war has aggression on the brain, one of the seven deadly symptoms of testosterone poisoning.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Nobody knows for sure exactly how Homer composed “The Odyssey,” or even who Homer was, but scholars

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As the attacks and counterattacks on and around Iran continue to escalate, and another pointless

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... One good thing about getting old is that, with any luck, you've learned to trust the truth of your own experience.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When my first collection of poems was published, by George Hitchcock's small but respected Kayak

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Comparing Jews to Nazis in bad poetry is definitely offensive — to me as a poet who is Jewish, it hurts to hear such language on both accounts.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If you were to write a novel or a screenplay featuring a professional fraudster and shamelessly

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Sixty years ago, on my first trip to Europe with my friend Dave Mann, between our sophomore and