James Carter on The I Ching by Richard J. Smith
“The Book in the High Castle: On "The I Ching: A Biography"”
October 15th, 2012
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Reviews
Glen Roven on Skios by Michael Frayn
“Identity Is as Identity Does: Frayn’s Farce”
October 14th, 2012
Peter M. Nardi on Fooling Houdini and Trade of the Tricks by Alex Stone and Graham M. Jones
October 14th, 2012
Katy Evans-Bush on London: A History in Verse by Mark Ford
““Because London is Still a Kaleidoscope”: The City's History in Verse”
October 14th, 2012
Victoria Patterson on Summer of Hate by Chris Kraus
“The Strangeness of Reality: Chris Kraus’s Summer of Love”
October 14th, 2012
John Langan on Motherless Child by Glen Hirshberg
“Mina and Lucy at the Waffle House”
October 14th, 2012
Peli Grietzer on Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing by Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith
“The Aesthetics of Sufficiency: On Conceptual Writing”
October 12th, 2012
Joseph Hammond on Battling Siki and Championzé by Peter Benson and Eddy Vaccaro
“The Singular Senegalese: On Africa's First Boxing Icon”
October 12th, 2012
Heather Tomlinson on Beast by Donna Jo Napoli
October 11th, 2012
Sherri Smith on The Fire Rose by Mercedes Lackey
October 11th, 2012
Merrie Haskell on Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley
October 11th, 2012
Annie Wyman on Fragile Acts by Allan Peterson
“Against the Facts: On Allan Peterson’s “Fragile Acts””
October 9th, 2012
John Cline on The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King by Rich Cohen
October 8th, 2012
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