There is an appropriateness, somehow, in turning to ”Next-to-Last Things” in this, the waning of the year. It is that kind of book: Portrait of the artist as an old man. One pictures the 80-year-old ...

Heinz-Uwe Haus, professor emeritus in the Department of Theatre and Dance, continues to demonstrate the breadth of his intellectual and artistic engagement through two recent publications that ...

“I spent a good part of my 15th year puzzling over drafts of poems by Dylan Thomas… often copying out each successive draft myself… trying to deduce... the reason for revisions in sound”. So wrote ...

One of the highlights of my first three years as a literature professor at MIT—and indeed, of my 15-year career as an educator—has been the recent discovery that some of my students, past and present, ...