CHELSEA — Perfection is not attainable in life. But might it be attainable in food? Seven stressed-out public defenders are seemingly intent on exploring that question in Sarah Einspanier’s witty and ...

Guillaume Apollinaire, trans. from the French by Ron Padgett. New York Review Books, $16 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-59017-925-3 Padgett (Alone and Not Alone) breathes new life into Apollinaire’s ...

Students of autocratic regimes have had cause lately to remind Americans that the undermining of democracy from within tends to happen by insidious degrees, not calamitous turning points that are ...

Fresh from the publication of My Mojave (Alice James), Donald Revell checks in with The Self-Dismembered Man: The Selected Later Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire, his ""favorite pieces"" from ...

Guillaume Apollinaire, born Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki on August 26, 1880, in Rome, Italy, and deceased on November 9, 1918, in Paris, France, was a notable French poet, ...

Born, out of wedlock, in Rome in 1880 to a high-spirited, convent-educated but unconventional young aristocrat of Russian, Polish and Italian descent, the poet Apollinaire was given no fewer than five ...