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Books
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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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Notes on Death and the Resurrection of Children’s Fiction
by Audrey Schomer February 29, 2012
The first time I’d read it, at 11, it was about a boy, because I was young. The second, at 19, it was about love, because I was in love. This time around, it was about death. And because it was about death, it was about everything else, too, juxtaposed with death.
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John Jeremiah Sullivan’s Pulphead
by Robert Carver February 21, 2012
Creative non-fiction: regardless of where one stands on the debate of which of those two modifiers rules the other — and to what degree — for everyone, there is a line.
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Self-made Enigma: Raymond Roussel
by Tynan Kogane February 6, 2012
Not reading Roussel is similar to never having eaten a pomegranate: never having pulled apart the brittle skin, peeled back the bitter membrane, bit into each seed for a tiny squirt of juice, ending up with a red-stained shirt.
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Dish, Dish: Gossiping with Joseph Epstein
by Margie Cook December 4, 2011
Epstein’s discerning eye for tantalizing details could have earned him a lucrative career as a gossip columnist in another life, but Gossip thrives on meatier substances.
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Adam Foulds: The Incurable Poet
by Malcolm Forbes November 23, 2011
At one juncture we are told, or warned, that ‘the world abrades your finesse away.’
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Mark Making: Sketches for Consequentiality
by Sara Christoph November 14, 2011
John Berger begins with one seemingly simple question: “Where does the impulse to draw something begin?”
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