Stephen Greenblatt reflects on the recent DNA identification of a skeleton unearthed in Leicester, UK, as those of Richard III, and the “relationship between the shape of a spine and the shape of a life.”
A few more items: an interview with Jamaica Kincaid in Mother Jones; another New Yorker piece, this one about the dark side of Robert Frost; and a sweet and haunting essay about a night spent with Allen Ginsberg — after he died.
Kathy
