All Reviews

• Practicing on Patients

  But objectivity may be as elusive as cancer's cure.

  Jul 8, 2011

• The Eyes Think

  You look up again, and each small step forward unveils a newly unfamiliar scene.

  Jul 7, 2011

• Unfinished Form

  We best remember Wallace, a walking dead man in our psych ward of a world, by looking past his own personality to our fallen American condition.

  Lee KonstantinouJul 6, 2011

  • Literary Fiction

• Famously Married

  "Must You Go?" is both a wife’s reflection and a historian’s.

  Jul 3, 2011

• Legacy

  Bush ended his term in office with the lowest approval rating since they started keeping approval ratings.

  Jul 2, 2011

• Glimmers of Family: Harmony Holiday's "Negro League Baseball"

  Negro League Baseball may be tough going for the average reader, yet its rewards are bountiful.

  Jun 30, 2011

• Scrappiness

  Poets who don’t want their unpublished poems to see the light of day should — as Auden did -- take to burning them.

  Eric GudasJun 30, 2011

  • Poetry

• War Zone: Mathias Énard's "Zone"

  Mirkovic fixates upon two types of men, not always separate: writers and war criminals.

  Jun 29, 2011

• The Ceiling Worker: Ben Katchor's "The Cardboard Valise"

  Jun 28, 2011

• Yizkor Bukher

  On my trip to Poland this past winter, I brought the perfect book as my traveling companion.

  Jun 27, 2011
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  The Criminal Kind: Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg

  Tense existential snapshots of sudden violence.

  Jun 23, 2011
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  The Criminal Kind: Geezer Noir

  "A collection of twenty-eight tales in the slef-defined niche of "geezer noir."

  Jun 23, 2011

• Three-Dimensional Wistfulness

  Jun 23, 2011

• A Wilderness of Contradictions: On Soft Skull's Deep Focus Series

  Improbably close readings of questionably canonical texts are the order of the day in these books.

  Jun 22, 2011

• Libya, 1931

  On four cylinders and inner tubes about to suffer dozens of punctures, Holmboe encountered the diverse and often impassable landscapes of the Sahara.

  Jun 21, 2011

• Home Pages

  A story of "a very imperfect life lived among very imperfect houses," written in homage to the yearnings that have fueled her lifelong game of house.

  Jun 20, 2011