Mary Jo Bang’s acclaimed translation of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno starts with this unforgettable verse: “Stopped mid-motion in the middle / Of what we call our … Read More
For as long as sports shape so much of our culture—globally, nationally, and locally—the stories we tell about them will shape us, too. In the … Read More
Reading the poet Mary Jo Bang’s new translation of Dante Alighieri’s Purgatorio, I thought of a widely-circulated photograph from the COVID pandemic. An Italian doctor … Read More