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Books
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Look at the night sky:
by David Wallace January 14, 2013
Glück’s voice is a reminder of the usefulness of a kind of aesthetic discipline, a ruthless desire to seek out the core of the poem.
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“I Wanted So Much to Be Someone”
by David Wallace October 23, 2012
Karl Ove Knausgaard and the New Literary Autobiography.
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Portrait of an Artist as a Middle-aged Man
by Margie Cook September 14, 2012
Manual is not a manual in the literal sense, but closer in kin to a journal, written by a sardonic portrait painter under the pen name H.
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According to G.H.
by Sara Breselor August 31, 2012
“If Americans were ever forced to leave their country, they would have a word for saudade.”
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Important Stuff
by Tom Melick August 22, 2012
What we should notice here is the kind of ingenuity that is possible when confronted with a material world in fragments.
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How Should a Person Be?
by Rachel Wetzler July 9, 2012
“I’m a person and not a piece of paper…A person is not a static thing, or a bunch of words.”
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In the Margins of Life
by Debora Kuan May 15, 2012
Sontag uncensored, it turns out, can be as playful as she can be pitiable.
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Flying Forward with César Aira
by David Wallace April 30, 2012
Aira leads us toward a realignment of values in our literature, where representing totality is unnecessary.
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Larkin’s Way
by Morten Høi Jensen April 3, 2012
Does Professor Burnett imagine that the inclusion of “Walt Whitman” – or the many other bumbling snippets of nonsense like it – strengthens Larkin’s oeuvre? If so he is seriously mistaken.
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Ms. Beattie and Mrs. Nixon
by Hannah Gersen March 23, 2012
It’s a moment that Beattie undercuts in the next chapter, chiding the reader for enjoying such autobiographical manipulations. And yet, it’s one of the few places in the book where Mrs. Nixon seemed, for a moment, to be a flesh-and-blood human being.
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