Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Maurice Blanchot, _L'Arrêt de Mort_

›
THERE ARE BOOKS one avoids reading because one feels one should have already read them. For example, unlike just about everyone else my age ...
Thursday, December 19, 2013

Doty and Lehman, eds., _The Best American Poetry 2012_

›
YES, I KNOW, I'm a year behindhand with this--the arrival of the new BAP tends to be my annual reminder that I have yet to read the prev...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

Kristi Maxwell, _Re-_

›
"A BOOK-LENGTH POEM about a couple" describes Re- accurately while giving an entirely misleading impression. For one thing, the...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

Third great new find of 2013

›
IT'S SHAPING UP as a good year for me, having already come across the work of Karen Hays and Lucy Ives, and now that I am finally gettin...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

Does Philip Roth have a magnum opus?

›
MUCH ENJOYED THE double-barreled page one reviews of the new biographies of Roth and Mailer  in the NYTBR a month ago, especially the review...
Sunday, October 13, 2013

Lawrence Wright, _Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief_

›
LAWRENCE WRIGHT IS not only an excellent journalist but a brave man, if what he says about the Church of Scientology's pattern of subjec...
Saturday, October 12, 2013

Lucy Ives, _Orange Roses_

›
ANOTHER GREAT FIND in Conjunctions 60 was "Orange Roses" by Lucy Ives, perhaps a poem, perhaps a next-American-essay essay in the...