Walt Whitman Archives

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Fighting Words

by Jackson Lears, Karen Parker Lears,

From their introduction to Raritan on War, an anthology of writing from the journal Raritan, which will be published next month by Rutgers University Press. War challenges the limits of…

The First Punch

by Matthew Karp,

How does History move? A generation ago, in the Nineties, it seemed to have forgotten how: perhaps, as Elijah mocked the prophets of Baal, History was on a journey, or…

Logorrhea

by Matthew J. C. Clark,

From Bjarki, Not Bjarki, which was published in January by the University of Iowa Press. What is wood? Consider the teenager’s nomenclature for an erect pecker. A peckerwood is a…

Metal Machine Music

by Laurent Dubreuil,

Can AI think creatively? Can we?

Poem for Harm

by Matthew Zapruder,

Reflections on harm in language and the trouble with Whitman

Inside the April Issue

by James Marcus,

Leslie Jamison on the Women's March, Alan Feuer on Bill de Blasio, Yascha Mounk on the refugee crisis in Germany, and Jessica Weisberg on Tokyo's exclusion of immigrants