Books
Author Vivian Gornick’s discontent is foundational, fertile, unquenchable, except by writing, and quite often funny.
Read MorePart of the maturity of Davey McGravy is how, though each poem has its own shape, each is a necessary part of the whole.
Read More“Yes, America might have been a nation of Christians, but that was different from being formally a Christian nation.”
Read MorePeter Davis knows Hollywood from the inside and has written a splendid novel about the great days of Tinsel Town with the kind of passion you rarely see anywhere these days.
Read MoreOliver Sacks’ On the Move is an absorbing, idiosyncratic, often moving memoir.
Read MoreIt’s not by accident that some of the greatest coming-of-age stories are concerned with deconstructing social stereotypes.
Read MoreHow can you act sanely when your country is brazenly committing genocide? Many of us didn’t.
Read MorePeter Gizzi is a master at allowing his poetic language to summon its own range of meanings, rather than blatantly declaring them to the reader.
Read MoreThis is a powerful, intensely felt short novel about the lives of ordinary people by a very young Irish writer.
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