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Recent articles from Partisan Review

In remembrance.(Editorial)
March 22, 2003... THIS ISSUE OF Partisan Review is dedicated to William Phillips, "the soul of Partisan Review." The following tributes by writers and friends testify to his outstanding intelligence, his ideas and vision, his strength of character and integrity, and his loyalty and sweetness, although not to...

Arthur Koestler: the consolations of communism.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... ARTHUR KOESTLER WRITES in his first volume of memoirs, Arrow in the Blue, that he would gladly exchange a hundred readers from his own time for just one of the next century. That's an intriguing trade for any writer, and Koestler probably meant it. But it is only about twenty years since his...

The Art of Losing: polish poetry and translation.(Poem)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... I'VE CALLED MY ESSAY "THE ART OF LOSING" for obvious reasons: according to many critics, losing things is what translators do best. And it seems to me--although this may just be my personal bias--that translators of poetry generally get the worst of it. "Why isn't your translation faithful?...

Trauma and poetry: a psychoanalyst's view on the healing power of the arts.
March 22, 2003... SINCE THE EARLIEST WRITINGS of Freud and his followers, psychoanalysts and critics have tried to construct theories of creativity that link psychoanalysis and the arts. My ideas about the relationship between psychoanalysis and creativity come from my work as a psychoanalyst, from my writing...

Dostoevsky and evil.(Poem)
March 22, 2003... IN THE SPRING OF 2002, a colloquium on the problem of evil, sponsored by the Nexus Foundation, was held at the University of Tilburg in Holland. I was a member of a panel assigned to discuss Dostoevsky, certainly the modern writer who has given the theme of evil one of its most powerful...