Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” ...

Kaplan offers a bleak vision of a world in permanent political upheaval. Taking his title from T. S. Eliot’s famous poem about civilizational breakdown in the wake of World War I, Kaplan sees the ...

The barren landscapes Eliot wrote about seemed to echo Dhaka’s ecological and cultural disconnect, creating an overwhelming ...