Bodies in Pain
The poems suspend different voices, different recognizable patterns of emotion and idiom, and stretch the lines out to include every voice.
All Reviews
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'?
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.”
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.
After the Liberation
It is time, after all, and not White himself that has transformed so drastically.
An Unknown Man: The Memoirs of Marquis of Bradomin
Valle-Inclán penned politically pointed plays that were to Spain as Brecht’s were to Germany.
Life After Papyrus: Stephen Greenblatt's "The Swerve"
In The Swerve, however, death is nothing, and people aren’t much either.
Culture War
The only way to get to real cultural diversity is to tell stories in which the diversity is real.
Highly Irregular
It quickly became clear that he loved Sherlock Holmes and the entire Holmes canon as much as I did, though for different reasons.
Sharp Tongues
Megan Abbott possesses one of the most lyrical voices in all of noir.
The Story of Porno
Hefner’s sexual tastes — sunny blondes with big boobs, in the main — became an American archetype.
It's Complicated: Peter Mountford's "A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism"
Peter Mountford’s compulsively readable first novel is a book about money, a bildungsroman in reverse.
King of the Losers
Doyle captures perfectly a barfly’s manic account of events (both profound and mundane) in the life of Pete, his car, and his dog, Lester.
No One Remembers You At All
Hollinghurst’s objective is actually a wry, subversive critique of memorialization.
Everywhere and Nowhere
Oppositional Thinking
the idea that the brain's hemispheres, though linked, worked independently has a long history.
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