Sunday, March 17, 2019

Chelsey Minnis, _Poemland_

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WHAT HAVE WE here? Possibly: a book-length poem, titled Poemland , in eleven untitled sections, each section consisting of 7-11 sub-sections...
Thursday, March 14, 2019

Michael Kazin, _A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan_

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THE UNITED STATES' lack of a robust, electorally competitive socialist party has inspired analysis and commentary for over a hundred yea...
Saturday, February 23, 2019

Ryszard Kapuscinski, _The Soccer War_

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Does anyone remember the Readers' Subscription? Google does not, it seems. It was a books-by-mail service like Book of the Month Club, w...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Elif Batuman, _The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them_

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I HAD READ a few of these essays about life as a graduate student in Slavic languages when they appeared in periodicals, so I was expecting ...
Monday, January 21, 2019

Sam Sax, _Madness_

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ONLY ONCE IN a while do I encounter a poet's second book and like it so much that I seek out the poet's first, and even more rarely ...
Saturday, January 12, 2019

Ben Katchor, ed., _Best American Comics 2017_ (Bill Kartalopoulos, series ed.)

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BEN KATCHOR'S SELECTION stays a good instance from the mainstream. He includes quite a few self-published items, for instance. A few thi...
Tuesday, January 8, 2019

James Baldwin, _If Beale Street Could Talk_

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THE ENVIABLY-NAMED Thomas Chatterton Williams began his review of Zadie Smith's Feel Free ( London Review of Books , August 30, 2018) th...