Len Gutkin on The Cocktail Waitress by James M. Cain
“The Terrifying Wish that Comes True: On Cain's 'The Cocktail Waitress'”
September 16th, 2012
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Reviews
Ben Hamilton on The Complete Poems by Philip Larkin
“Dangerous to Know: On Philip Larkin’s Complete Poems”
July 20th, 2012
Boris Dralyuk on The Complete Slayers by Paul Cain
January 26th, 2012
Cécile Alduy on The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women by Élisabeth Badinter
“The Organic-Zucchini-Baby-Food-Mixing Streamline Mommy”
August 5th, 2012
Houman Barekat on The Country and the City by Raymond Williams
August 4th, 2012
Matthew Specktor on The Cows by Lydia Davis
November 8th, 2011
Bruce Robbins on The Crisis of the European Union: A Response by Jürgen Habermas
“Europe on the Brink: Habermas and the Currency Crisis ”
September 20th, 2012
John Langan on The Croning by Laird Barron
“Irony Black as the Spaces Between the Stars ”
August 24th, 2012
Scott Esposito on The Curfew by Jesse Ball
“Nothing to Say?: Jesse Ball's "The Curfew"”
September 26th, 2011
Nancy Forbes Romano on The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic
“Illuminating Damnation: A Classic American Novel of Sex and Religion”
November 28th, 2012
Casey Shoop on The Deliverance of Others by David Palumbo-Liu
“Too Much Otherness?: The Ethics of Reading in the Global Age”
December 12th, 2012
Brian Attebery on The Devil Delivered and Other Tales by Steven Erikson
June 18th, 2012
Georgia Jeffries on The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
September 21st, 2011
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