“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
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Colin Fleming on Mrs. Ames by E.F. Benson
“The Re-readability of E.F. Benson”
December 27th, 2012
Sherryl Vint on Ink by Sabrina Vourvoulias
“Don’t Let the Future Be Written For You”
December 27th, 2012
Hillary Kelly on Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens by Robert Gottlieb
“Dickens’s Actual Children: On Robert Gottlieb's "Great Expectations"”
December 23rd, 2012
Michael Bourne on The Heart Broke In by
“Promiscuity Without Consequence: James Meek on an Immoral Majority”
December 22nd, 2012
Ian Scheffler on The Voice Is All by Joyce Johnson
“Speak, Jack: Joyce Johnson’s New Biography of Jack Kerouac”
December 21st, 2012
Srinivas Aravamudan, Julia Lupton and David Palumbo-Liu on Blow Up The Humanities by Toby Miller and Toby Miller
“The Academy In Peril: A Symposium”
December 21st, 2012
Michael Bourne on Magnificence by Lydia Millet
“Species Decline: On Lydia Millet's 'Magnificence'”
December 19th, 2012
Eileen Reynolds on The First Four Notes by Matthew Guerrieri
“Sublime Nothingness: On 'The First Four Notes'”
December 18th, 2012
Rob Latham on Nested Scrolls by Rudy Rucker
December 18th, 2012
David Wolpe on Why Love Hurts by Eva Illouz
“An Age of Broken Glances: On 'Why Love Hurts'”
December 17th, 2012
Ryan Healey on The Shadow of Memory by Bernard Comment
“The Memory Artist vs. the Data Miner: On Comment's 'The Shadow of Memory'”
December 16th, 2012
Mara Hvistendahl on Behind the Red Door by Richard Burger
“China’s Singular Sexual Revolution”
December 16th, 2012
Renate Stendhal on How the French Invented Love by Marilyn Yalom
“L’Amour (Oh La La) L’Amour is Strange”
December 16th, 2012
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