Kate Orazem
Articles by Kate Orazem
Top Story
There might be a revolution going on in American poetry, but like most things that happen in American poetry, nobody really knows about it. It won’t make CNN, and definitely not Newsweek, but this spring, after the publication of Katherine Larson’s Radial Symmetry, Louise Glück, Adjunct Professor of English and the Rosencranz Writer-in-Residence at …
A&E
Voltaire (and, after that, generations of high school Western Civ teachers) once said that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. Well, It’s Kind of a Funny Story is neither funny (which would require good jokes) nor a story (which would require character development, or a plot), and those deficits …
A&E
“Magic Carpet Ride,” by Steppenwolf. “Blue Sky,” by Big Head Todd. The Star Trek theme song. I know you’re wondering what these three songs have in common—dorky uncle’s barbecue playlist? VH1 “Most Whatever Songs of June 1983” marathon? Tracks used to torture extraordinary-rendered terrorists? Close, but no: these three gems of American pop music are …
A&E
Courtney Love gets sued:
In March of last year, Courtney Love achieved the honor of being the first person ever sued for libel over her Twitter account. British fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir accused Love in court documents of launching “nothing short of an obsessive and delusional crusade to terrorise and destroy” her. Love’s Tweets about Simorangkir …