Jana Prikryl

Jana Prikryl is a senior editor at the New York Review of Books.

Poem: ‘Ars Poetica’

Jana Prikryl, 20 November 2014

1.

What we are most easily seduced by must tell us something about ourselves, but what if it tells us only about everyone else? If you want to get to know someone (tweets the prolific Kelly Oxford) argue with him, and I considered that wisdom, considering my recent disagreements with you there reading this. Let me here drop too a word on Arthur Conan Doyle’s surrender to the disciples of...

Read anywhere with the London Review of Books app, available now from the App Store for Apple devices, Google Play for Android devices and Amazon for your Kindle Fire.

Sign up to our newsletter

For highlights from the latest issue, our archive and the blog, as well as news, events and exclusive promotions.

Newsletter Preferences