I like to imagine that the mouse-like Micylus was the author of one of the old scrolls Callimachus found at the library, unregarded even in his own day, but resurrected through this tribute to a quiet ...

Callimachus (c. 310-240 B.C.) was a Greek poet of the ancient world, also renowned as a scholar and librarian at the equally renowned Library of Alexandria (which housed all the great works of the ...

After Callimachus: Poems Stephanie Burt. Princeton Univ., $24.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-691-18019-9 The delightful fifth book from poet and critic Burt (Advice from the Lights) brings the ancient poet ...

In the yet-to-be-written history of school supplies, the 1980s was a decisive period. Back-to-school materials had to that point offered little opportunity for individual expression: the static ...

Visual depictions of suicide kill. We buried Melanie that morning; the day after, Basil died.