Monday, January 17, 2022

Frank B. Wilderson III, _Afropessimism_

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 I DECIDED TO pick this up after reading Greg Tate's review in The Nation last fall (Sept. 17, 2021). One of the last things Tate publis...
Sunday, January 9, 2022

Brontez Purnell, _Since I Laid My Burden Down_

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 SIMPLE ENOUGH PREMISE--gay Black man raised in rural Alabama, long since resident in Bay Area and deeply conversant in clubbing, drugs, and...
Saturday, January 1, 2022

Jonathan Coe, _Middle England_

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 THE THIRD, PERHAPS final novel in a series that began with The Rotters' Club (which I have read) and continued with The Closed Circle ...
Thursday, December 30, 2021

Seamus Heaney, _The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes_

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 WONDERING WHAT DREW Heaney to this play, I figured it must have had something to do with Ireland. The translation of Dante and the Dantean ...
Sunday, December 26, 2021

Alison Bechdel, _The Secret to Superhuman Strength_

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 ALISON BECHDEL IS one of those people—Bob Dylan, John Ashbery, Todd Haynes, Johnny Marr come to mind, for me—who seem constitutionally unab...
Friday, December 24, 2021

Nathalie Léger, _Exposition_, trans. Amanda DeMarco

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 THE BACK JACKET copy calls Exposition the first in a triptych--a painting in three panels--would we call Exposition a portrait, then? It...
Thursday, December 23, 2021

Kent Russell, _I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son_

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  KING KONG THEORY could be crudely described as a book about the perils of being born female, and I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timi...