Monday, June 27, 2016

Binyavanga Wainaina, _One Day I Will Write about This Place_

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WAINAINA IS FAMOUS for his short, ferocious satire "How To Write About Africa." At times this book gets off comparable flamethrowe...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

Geoff Dyer, _Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It_

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JUST CHECKED, AND yes, Dyer did attend Oxford University, which I suspected he had given his perfection of the Oxford manner, by which I mea...
Friday, June 24, 2016

Maggie Nelson, _The Argonauts_

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A LOOSELY ASSOCIATIVE flock of micro-essays, this book has as its center of gravity Nelson's having a baby with her partner Harry Dodge,...
Tuesday, June 21, 2016

John Ashbery, _Breezeway_

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IN 1985, THE year Ashbery's first Selected Poems appeared, I had an office next to someone who edited a fairly prestigious literary jou...

Jacques Rancière, _Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art_ (tr. Zakir Paul)

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MODELLED ON AUERBACH's Mimesis, a daunting predecessor if there ever was one, Aisthesis is fourteen essays unpacking a historical rang...
Monday, June 20, 2016

Sam Tanenhaus, _The Death of Conservatism_

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READING THE MAYER book led me to look at this again. The expanded version of a New Republic article that appeared in the first few weeks ...
Saturday, June 18, 2016

Colum McCann, _TranAtlantic_

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I MEANT TO read but never got around to reading McCann's prize-winning Let the Great World Spin , so this, the July selection in our boo...