Gene Scheer. {Photograph} by Kate Russell. In early March, a brand new manufacturing of Moby-Dick will open on the Metropolitan Opera. In some methods, Moby-Dick already has all the things an opera wants: narrative drama, memorable characters, excessive stakes, and even the excessive seas. However to adapt Herman Melville’s basic textual content—typically known as probably […]

Poet and former Nationwide Endowment for the Arts chairman Dana Gioia has been busy. He’s simply printed a spate of latest books: Poetry as Enchantment and Different Essays (Paul Dry Books); Dana Gioia: Poet & Critic (Mercer College Press, edited by John Zheng and Jon Parrish Peede); and final and shortest (205 pages), Weep, Shudder, […]