“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Reviews
Anya Groner on Between Heaven and Here by Susan Straight
“How We Care For Our Dead: On Susan Straight's "Between Heaven and Here"”
November 22nd, 2012
Adam Z. Levy on Kornél Esti by Dezsó Kosztolányi
August 16th, 2011
Lee Konstantinou on Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt
November 21st, 2011
Amy Gentry on American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett
“Hybridized Genres: Robert Jackson Bennett's "American Elsewhere"”
February 28th, 2013
Tom Benedek on I Am Spartacus! by Kirk Douglas
“I Am Spartacus!: Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist”
November 8th, 2012
Gregory Leon Miller on Erasure, Assumption, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, For Her Dark Skin and A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Percival Everett, Percival Everett, Percival Everett, Percival Everett, Percival Everett and James Kincaid
January 23rd, 2012
Glen Roven on Skios by Michael Frayn
“Identity Is as Identity Does: Frayn’s Farce”
October 14th, 2012
Ariana Kelly on Flickering Light by Christoph Ribbat
“Illuminated Manuscripts: On the History of Neon”
March 14th, 2013
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
Jason Parham on Pym by Mat Johnson
August 25th, 2011
Eli Diner on Coco Chanel by Lisa Chaney
March 26th, 2012
Nathan Deuel on Shopping for a Better Country by Josip Novakovich
July 16th, 2012
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