Archive

Lost and Saved
because of its ornateness, Ausubel’s prose seems to float around the idea of trauma
Feb 27, 2012
- Fiction
Mixed Memories
They make one rule: 'Each day, we had to do at least one thing that was forbidden.'
E.C. McCarthyFeb 27, 2012
- Fiction
- Memoir & Essay
Good Liar, Terrible Liar
there is a cost to the storyteller, as there can often be to messengers and visionaries.
Feb 27, 2012
The Matter With Kansas: Ben Lerner Talks to Cyrus Console
Your book contains what is to my mind the finest suite of acrostics ever written in English (RAINBOW).
Ben LernerFeb 26, 2012
Not Pretty: On Edith Wharton and Jonathan Franzen
Do we even have to say that physical beauty is beside the point when discussing the work of a major author?
Victoria PattersonFeb 25, 2012
Discoveries: Pamela Druckerman
Okay! I get it! The French are better than us in every way!
Susan Salter ReynoldsFeb 25, 2012
- Nonfiction
Discoveries: Friedrich Delius
She tries to make sense of the war and its reasons, and cannot.
Susan Salter ReynoldsFeb 25, 2012
- Fiction
Discoveries: Tupelo Hassman
Girlchild is told in many voices: Rory’s diary entries, social worker notes, letters, arrest records,
Susan Salter ReynoldsFeb 25, 2012
- Fiction
The Exegete
Crazy people generally don’t know they’re crazy and Dick’s abiding awareness of the dubious nature of his visions makes him at worst a pathetic figure
Rob LathamFeb 24, 2012
Strange Bedfellows
on Christianity and homosexuality
Briallen HopperFeb 23, 2012
Bodies in Pain
The poems suspend different voices, different recognizable patterns of emotion and idiom, and stretch the lines out to include every voice.
Feb 22, 2012
A Catalogue of Us with All: Juliana Spahr’s “Well Then There Now”
where do 'we' go from here? How do we build, assume, curate a new 'us'?
Feb 22, 2012
One Ireland, Plus At Least Six Great Britains
As far as most American poetry readers are concerned, “Down Under” might as well be synonymous with “Out of Sight, Out of Mind.”
Brian ReedFeb 22, 2012
- Literary Criticism
Tales From The Platinum Triangle
Gross offers up a capsule history of the settlement of this triangular mecca and traces the westerly movement of Los Angeles’s well-to-do.
Jeffrey BurbankFeb 21, 2012
- Nonfiction
After the Liberation
It is time, after all, and not White himself that has transformed so drastically.
Alex GortmanFeb 20, 2012
- Fiction
- Gender & Sexuality
Assume The Position: An Interview with Edmund White
What was fun for me was to use the trajectory of my own life, but to assign it to someone who was quite unlike myself.
Michael WolfeFeb 20, 2012