Books
It is not surprising that Wendy Warren strains to find words to “comprehend the rank tragedy that resulted from enslavement.”
Read MoreThe author makes fully human an illness marked by absence and estrangement from humanity.
Read MoreIn no way does Sweetbitter succeed in doing what you are led to expect of it: to frame the post-9/11 zeitgeist.
Read MoreTim Winton’s memoir about how deeply Australia’s landscape shaped him and his writing.
Read MoreLibrary of America’s anthology War No More explores a distinctively American tradition of antimilitarism.
Read MoreEditors Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue are not trying to teach us how to read the poems.
Read MoreYou may have read similar earlier works, but Dominic Smith’s novel is in a class of its own.
Read MoreAlthough Anger and Forgiveness is a work of systematic philosophy it is also provocatively personal.
Read MoreOnce and For All asserts the value of Delmore Schwartz’s provocative and multifaceted literary legacy.
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Literary Appreciation: “The Passion for the Thing” — An Argument for Writer Harry Crews
The Southern-inflected melee of Harry Crews’ universe is like a Hieronymus Bosch canvas dipped in whiskey and flour and deep-fried.
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