Books
This Be the Verse: Our Favorite Poetry Books of 2020
John Yau and Albert Mobilio select a few choice titles from the past year.
Weekend Words
Art
Weekend Words: Farewell
"I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell."
Art
Weekend Words: Wall
"Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them."
Art
Weekend Words: Resign
"The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign."
Art
Weekend Words: Dawn
"No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn."
Art
Weekend Words: Constitution
"We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution."
Art
Weekend Words: General
"War is too important to be left to the generals."
Art
Weekend Words: Eight
"When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business."
Art
Weekend Words: Idiot
"Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them."
Art
Weekend Words: Press
"Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians."
Art
Weekend Words: Passage
"In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning."
Art
Weekend Words: Tape
"Which came first, the intestine or the tapeworm?"