Jin Hao Li: Swimming in a Submarine is the first stand-up show I have been to in which, before the show starts, the comedian goes around the audience, giving each person a thumbs-up and asking, ...

William Empson echoed this in 1953, in a disappointing piece. These remarks are surely much mistaken. Stevens’ poetry has something quite definite to say: ‘After one has abandoned a belief in god, ...