Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and sho…

- Benjamin Moser

It’s one thing if everyone wears the same shoes or drinks the same soda. But the world of literature is the last place in which globalization should …

- Benjamin Moser

Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go.

- Benjamin Moser

I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.

- Benjamin Moser

There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,' she wrote. 'A man is punished for his crime because the State is stronger than he; t…

- Benjamin Moser