Loads of Learned Lumber

IT'S EASY TO understand all the comparisons to Waugh -- razor-precise prose dissecting the hypocrisies and cruelties of the English uppe...

I HEARD THIS cited as a good example of a volume of poetry about illness, only to learn from the first sentence of the preface, "This i...

SOMEONE, ON LEARNING I liked Ben Doyle's Radio, Radio , recommended this -- I'm not sure what linked the two in this person's mi...

THERE REALLY WAS a George Ticknor -- one of the 19th century's leading scholars of Italian literature -- and he really did write a biog...

I WONDER WHAT Sontag's standing will be ten, twenty, thirty years from now. A natural question to ask when a famous writer dies, I supp...

I HAD heard of neither Apostrophe Books nor Paul Foster Johnson (who has, however, published in some cool places -- Octopus , Fence , canweh...

GIVEN THE MULTIPLE-UNIVERSES hypothesis, somewhere there is a world where one day each year is devoted to public readings of John Ashbery...