Magazine

AFFAIRS

culture

ABOUT CORRESPONDENCE TEAM

Writer

Talitha Khalil

Poetry on trial — reading Jean Cocteau’s Testament of Orpheus in the light of Gorgias’ Encomium of Helen

Turner’s Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus — a reading

Nature and nocuousness — an exploration of Milton’s presentation of prelapsarian Adam and Eve

What makes Donatello’s sculptures so compelling?

Classical katabasis in Allen Ginsberg’s Howl