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Gather around, for it's very cold
Here is how Rilke spins a tale, as if in passing, barely noticing the blast and the crater left by his handful of lines: It was already...

Duru Gungor
Jan 30, 20221 min read


Fast-forwarding Mr. Stevens
When the full collection is read as such, one doesn't just read the poems but also, obscurely, the man behind ...

Duru Gungor
Jul 8, 20218 min read


Conversations with Bashō: The September Edition
Very simple deal: Bashō writes a haiku, and I respond with another or two. A mini compilation to celebrate this fall and/or to succumb to...

Duru Gungor
Sep 15, 20201 min read


The best of Nabokov's Glory
the 2012 Penguin Classics edition, translated from Russian by Dimitri Nabokov in collaboration with Nabokov himself. [It should be noted...

Duru Gungor
Jul 8, 20204 min read


The Best of Kenkō's Essays in Idleness
(14th-century Japanese classic by Yoshida Kenkō, translated by Meredith McKinnney, Penguin Books, 2013; obviously, the "best" refers...

Duru Gungor
May 7, 20207 min read


#92, Essays in Idleness
"A beginner should not hold two arrows.... You will be careless with the first, knowing you have a second."

Duru Gungor
Apr 22, 20201 min read
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