Postal Modernism
On two volumes of letters by Ernest Hemingway and Samuel Beckett.
All Reviews
The Art of Slacking: Paul Hendrickson's "Hemingway's Boat"
Finishing Touches
On the posthumous work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.
Heroine Chic: Tarpé Mills' "Miss Fury"
Back to the Garden: Jane Shaw's "Octavia, Daughter of God"
A Pirate’s Life for Me: Sara Levine's "Treasure Island!!!"
The story eddies into a piercing family drama, in which its undercurrents of sadness and regret can finally rise to the surface.
Household Saint
21’s eloquence is visual, and it is a very real eloquence.
Pop Will Meet Itself: Simon Reynolds's "Retromania"
Whatever your take on this classically postmodern conundrum, you're liable to come away from Retromania with more questions than you had going in.
Being Boring
The novel — what we have of it anyway — challenges us to pay attention with a selflessness that allows the world to "blaze in an almost sacred way."
Discoveries: Jane Smiley
Discoveries: John Jeremiah Sullivan
Discoveries: Edna O'Brien
Rereading Catch-22
For many years, I believed that my favorite novel was Catch-22.
A Singer's Singer
Reconstructing the luminescent career of Willie John the “stone genius.”
Object Relations
There's no doubt that Hammons is one of the most important artists — conceptual, black, or otherwise — to emerge in America in the last 50 years.
Philosophical Improvisations
Improvisation is an art of time in search of the present.
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