Thursday, January 31, 2013

Elaine Pagels, _Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, & Politics in the Book of Revelation_

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I'VE BEEN A fan of Elaine Pagels since I read The Gnostic Gospels in...1988, I think it was; she's one of the writers whose books I...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

David, Cook, Brady, & Houlbrook

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PURSUANT TO A project tedious to explain, I've been reading up on the history of gay men in England, focusing on the 20th century...and ...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

William Styron, _The Long March_

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READING REVIEWS OF the new edition of William Styron's letters reminded me that I had never read any of his books, even though he was a ...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Is "Poet Lady" Jorie Graham?

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i AM BEHIND in my reading of the London Review Books --which leaves the misleading impression that I am caught up in everything else, when m...
Monday, January 21, 2013

Amy Waldman, _The Submission_

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A COMMITTEE CHARGED with selecting a design for a 9/11 memorial on the site of the World Trade Center reviews a number of blind submissions ...
Friday, January 18, 2013

Ben Marcus, _The Flame Alphabet_

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yet WHEN THIS CAME out about a year ago, and Marcus was interviewed on NPR, I was, I admit, a little worried that he had succumbed to some s...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Jacques Rancière, _The Future of the Image_

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I MAY BE--in fact, almost certainly am--missing something here. The back of this Verso paperback explains that "Jacques Rancière's ...