Loads of Learned Lumber

I WAS JUST about convinced that Ronald Johnson's Radi Os was an astonishingly lucky fluke--that is, that there could not possibly be an...

I EXPECTED TO like this somewhat more than I find I did. I thought Halls of Fame was excellent, and the two prose anthologies D'Agata e...

IS THE FLOWERING of the graphic novel really more a flowering of the graphic memoir? It seems to me that most of the landmarks of this genr...

A GRAPHIC NOVEL/MEMOIR, braiding the Chinese folktale of the Monkey King, who sought to pass as human; a sit-com-parody about Danny, an all-...

WHAT A KICK to see this volume by the estimable Heather Christle from the estimable Octopus Books on the short list for poetry honors in The...

I APPROACH NEW novels by Barbara Kingsolver with just a little trepidation, thinking this may be the one that's a little too earnest, a ...

WELL, IT HAS been a while. We--by which of course I mean "I," proprietor, management, and sole employee of Loads of Learned Lumber...