All the Knowledge in the World: Reflections on Eco’s Library

I was on a book tour in Italy recently. In an attempt to brush up my Italian beforehand, I watched, on youtube, interviews with Primo Levi, Italo Calvino, Stefano Benni, Orianna Fallaci, and Umberto Eco. Listening to Eco, I was reminded of his famous library, which contained 30,000 books. His home was described by Lila Azam Zanganeh in…

“In the Room of Thirsts & Hungers: The Mirrored Tragedies of Paul Robeson & Othello” by Indigo Moor

I opened up Indigo Moor’s latest and quite phenomenal poetry collection and I was gripped from the first poem – the first stanza, actually. To say that Moor has a gift for language is like saying Einstein had a gift for math. The collection buzzes with resonant imagery and one-liners that read like epitaphs. In…