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Patrick Kurp

Patrick Kurp is a writer living in Houston, and the author of the literary blog Anecdotal Evidence.

Complex, Simple: On Robert Conquest’s “Collected Poems”

Patrick Kurp admires the “Collected Poems” of the renowned historian Robert Conquest, whose verse “ranges from the ribald to the wittily rarefied.”...

POETRY

A Set of Vicious Russian Nesting Dolls: On Varlam Shalamov’s “Sketches of the Criminal World: Further Kolyma Stories”

Patrick Kurp reads and rereads “Sketches of the Criminal World,” the second volume of Varlam Shalamov’s Kolyma stories translated by Donald Rayfield....

AROUND THE WORLD

FICTION

“Cheering as the Summer Weather”: On the Primal Appeal of Light Verse

Patrick Kurp sings the praises of light verse, from Ogden Nash to the present day....

POETRY

Los Angeles Review of Books

His Own “Final Thing”: On Varlam Shalamov’s “Kolyma Stories”

AROUND THE WORLD

FICTION

Los Angeles Review of Books

“The Dramatis Personae of Our Lives”: On “A Bountiful Harvest: The Correspondence of Anthony Hecht and William L. MacDonald”

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

POETRY

Los Angeles Review of Books

Outside It Is Already Winter: Two New Books on Stalinist Terror

AROUND THE WORLD

MEMOIR & ESSAY

HISTORY

Los Angeles Review of Books

“The Exceptional Man”: Rereading Richard Wilbur

POETRY

Los Angeles Review of Books

A Negative Freedom: Thirteen Poets on Formal Verse

POETRY

Los Angeles Review of Books

“That Little Sob in the Spine”: Vladimir Nabokov in Conversation

FICTION

Los Angeles Review of Books

“A Sweetness in This Sense”: On X. J. Kennedy’s “That Swing: Poems, 2008–2016”

POETRY

Los Angeles Review of Books

“Literature with a Capital L”: On Arthur Krystal’s “This Thing We Call Literature”

LITERARY CRITICISM

MEMOIR & ESSAY