An accomplished poet and a keen observer of the human condition, David Slavitt deploys both skill...

Directly or obliquely, while reading Gibbon or shopping for toys at F. A. O. Schwarz, Slavitt add...

Shiksa

[Slavitt's] sentences are so unburdened by the trivial or any kind of distraction, so transparent...

This volume of poetry illustrates a new side of the author of The Carnivore and Suits for the Dea...

Are there no limits to human cruelty? Is there any divine justice? Do the gods even matter if the...

'The works of Plautus,' writes Palmer Bovie, 'mark the real beginning of Roman literature.' In th...

As he enters his sixth decade of publishing poetry, David R. Slavitt remains a determined wildcat...

Fiction. Jewish Studies. A version of Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilyich,except that it is contempora...

Death Benefits deepens and extends David R. Slavitt's sublime, lyric confrontation with mortality...

The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of class...

Historical fiction has long ranked somewhere just above romance novels and mysteries in the great...