Dappled Links

Confronting Reality by Reading Fantasy - The Atlantic
Fantasy author Lev Grossman reflects on the special power of Narnia.

Finding the Words - The New Yorker
“There’s one other thing I’d like to tell you about my grief: I was shocked to discover that I couldn’t read. Even poetry, which had always come to my rescue, couldn’t protect or console me."

A Conversation with Christian Wiman - Image
"I wrote somewhere or other that to love one’s life is to assent to its terms, the severest of which is death."

The Poetry of World War I - Poetry
Poems about the war, ordered by the year of their writing.