Books
Wherever Robert Hass is, the poet drinks in (and reports to us) the details of place and human activity.
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Perhaps the book’s most impressive accomplishment is to make a kind of systematic case for Leonard Bernstein’s larger compositional output.
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From the first page of Martha Ackmann’s new book on Emily Dickinson, you know you’re reading something entirely different.
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There’s a funny, parabolic quality to the emotional weather in Weather — amidst all the unsettling harbingers, the sensation of being in end times, there is still love.
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Carolynn Kingyens’s debut book of poems, Before the Big Bang Makes a Sound, reminds us of our everyday struggles.
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Strange Hotel focuses on a woman’s life in middle age, suspended between the hollow satisfactions of memory and anxiety about the future.
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Gish Jen’s new novel asks, Is ambition worthwhile in a world without justice?
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A victim Adrienne Miller is most certainly not: the self-portrait that emerges in her pages is of an accomplished, wise, wittily self-deprecating author of her own destiny.
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Lawrence Joseph makes the case that representing violence in verse is necessary because of poetry’s value as art: to concisely capture these deadly events.
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Books Commentary: Chronicler of Boston Crime — The Case for George V. Higgins
George V. Higgins created a style that was at first revelatory, then degenerated into a tic at the end of his career.
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