Weekend Reading: The Man Who Would Be Jaguar
Curious about what’s happened in the rain forest since the last time we heard from Glenn Shepard, intrepid author of “Agony and Ecstasy in the Amazon” from our “Bedeviled” issue? He wrote for us about hard tobacco, ayahuasca, and new planes of experience. He’s gone even further in this fascinating article by Emma Marris from National...
Broad Street 2.1: “Bedeviled”
Once devils lived in everything. They lurked in trees, hid in ponds, crept through forests, hexed our crops, sickened our livestock and our children, cursed our limbs so they withered. They brought down fires and illness and disappointments of all sorts. We set out gifts for them: bowls of milk, or an extra plate at...
From the Vault to the Page: Harvard’s Pigment Library
Jenny Stenger, © President and Fellows of Harvard College When you hear the word “library,” old books and wooden shelves come to mind, and the sense-memory of that distinct aroma released while flipping through the aged pages. However, at Harvard University, the shelves of one library are filled with something different — colors. Pigments of every...
Broad Street Contributor Thomas E. Kennedy Receives Dan Turèll Medal
Author and translator Thomas E. Kennedy, whose writing was featured in “Hunt, Gather,” is the recipient of this year’s Dan Turèll Medal. The Dan Turèll Society presents this honor to Kennedy as an “ambassador of Danish literature in the English-speaking world.” As he is a past contributor to Broad Street Magazine, we are thrilled to share this achievement with...
Contributor News: Praise for “The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai,” translated by Robert Alter.
ILLUSTRATION: Riccardo Vecchio; SOURCE: The New Yorker Writing in The New Yorker, James Woods reviews the long-awaited collected poems of Yehuda Amichai, newly translated by eminent scholar Robert Alter and published as The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai. Some of the poems and Alter’s introduction to them first appeared in Broad Street’s “Dangerous Territory.” http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/04/like-a-prayer Alter describes Amichai’s poetry as...
