When the term Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) came along many years ago, it was generally associated with veterans trying to exorcise their internal demons. Many lives have been ruined forever by it; while some patients struggle... Read More

On February 9, 1994, after being evicted from his Paris apartment, the Romanian poet Gherasim Luca committed suicide by jumping into the Seine River. Though tragic, his death could hardly have been a shock to his readers. For the... Read More

The grief unique to women plays a central role in Bloch’s fourth collection "Blood Honey", here cast in muted shades of irony: “We were sitting on my sofa with his dead wife. / (A good-looking woman, he allowed.)” But the pain of... Read More