The Accidental British Servant: Leonard Woolf in Ceylon
by Joe Kovacs When I joined the Peace Corps and went to Sri Lanka in 1997, I took a leave of absence from a graduate…
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Go to Know: Yeats’ Ireland
“You got to go there, to know there”, wrote Zora Neale Hurston. Although this African-American writer does not automatically evoke Ireland’s patron-poet, Hurston’s words are…
Takashi Atoda in Tokyo
by Rob Keast A reader visits the setting of a short story, not only because it is there but because he is there. Some points…
John Steinbeck’s New York: A Home in Sag Harbor
by Paige Grande The First Trip – 1925 Though Steinbeck is generally known as a California writer, he lived nearly half his life in New…
Still an Inspiration: James Whitcomb Riley’s Legacy
by Lori Soard Just east of Indianapolis; sandwiched between corn fields and soybean crops; a few hundred feet from the Old National Road (US 40)…
The Longfellow House
By Natalie Rothstein He was a young 30-year-old professor about to start his teaching career at Harvard. So it was that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow knocked…
Naulakha, Rudyard Kipling’s Priceless Jewel
By Ann Wallace I feel no twinge of conscience To deny me any theme When care has cast her anchor In the harbor of a…
John Keats and the Casina Rosa
The "Casina Rossa" or "Little Red House" sits next to the Spanish Steps in the Piazza di Spagna in Rome. An unprepossessing building built in 1725, it…
The Legacy of Dylan Thomas in Wales
Since the untimely death of Dylan Thomas in November 1953, the writer's popularity has escalated, especially in his native Wales. In Swansea, the city…
Poe on Sullivan’s Island
On a chilly autumn day in the year of the new millennium, I head my car out of Charleston, South Carolina up the coast, across the river and marshes t…