For these three poets, the goal of experimentation remains the same as when Auden first...
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For Us What Music?: The Life and Poetry of Donald Justice
Jerry Harp opens his critical biography boldly asserting that Donald Justice “should be considered among...
The Broken Word is at first glance not a complete change of artistic tack. It...
In Living Must Bury, Josie Sigler’s first collection and the winner of the Fence 2010...
Much has been written on the subject of identity politics; by contrast, relatively little has...
Through two chronological poem sequences, Bradfield creates a new kind of log book. She traces...
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Recent Fiction Reviews
In formulating his conceit for the novel Drain, Davis Schneiderman takes a page from forbears...
Jerry Gabriel's characters seem to spring from the cracks in the sidewalks, allowing the town's...
Shoplifting from American Apparel
Let's agree on the obvious: no book is for everybody. One book will always appeal...
Eighty-six-year-old Hennie Comfort has lived in the rugged mining town of Middle Swan since before...
Matthew Pearl's first novel, The Dante Club (2003), surprised critics with its erudite blending of...
The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation
Fanny Howe's A Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation emerges from the past even as...
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Nonfiction
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
David Brooks’s The Social Animal is not a novel, though if it were released as...
Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy
Ira Sukrungruang's memoir Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy is a work firmly cemented...
Live Nude Elf & Live Nude Girl
both writers recognize the unavoidable aspects of sensationalism in their subjects; they alternately mock and...