How Allen Ginsberg's letters were an extension of his poetry
| 11:42 AM Jan 26, 2009
Reading The Letters of Allen Ginsberg is an unexpectedly moving experience. It is unexpected because, 11 years after the poet’s death and some 50 years since he wrote his major poems, “Howl” and “Kaddish,” there can be few readers who have not already decided how they feel about Ginsberg—whether they love him, with the special ...
In bidding on a batch of stamps, Reinhard Kaiser unearthed the story of an ill-fated wartime romance
| 11:19 PM Oct 10, 2006
Reinhard Kaiser, top inset;
below, Ingeborg Magnusson and Rudolf Kaufmann
“My dear little Ingeborg, you won’t have forgotten me and your visit to Bologna in spite of the beauties of Venice.” So begins the collection of letters that Reinhard Kaiser bid on at a Frankfurt stamp auction in 1991. The story they told would consume him ...
Long after Hannah Arendt stopped being his "saucy wood nymph," Martin Heidegger had absolute control of their heady correspondence.
| 12:00 AM Jan 21, 2004
Martin Heidegger
The correspondence between Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt was a rumor long before it was a book. In 1982, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl’s biography of Arendt, For Love of the World, revealed publicly what Arendt’s friends had long known: that in the 1920s, Arendt and Heidegger had been lovers. But it was only in 1995 that ...
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