Books
Amina Cain’s style is unusual, and it may tow readers so rapidly through this brief novel they won’t look back.
Here is why you have to read this book: It gives proof to my faith that those beautiful lines and paragraphs created through the ages can comfort in present distress and continue to do so as one heals.
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Vivian Gornick is an elegist of the transformative experience of reading and writing, what she calls “the companionateness” of books.
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“The idea that slavery was not economically important to New England as a whole is just emphatically not true.”
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It’s hard to think of a contemporary poet who has engaged so passionately and devotedly, over many decades, with a single forebear.
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For America to get back on track, “It will take inspired radical leadership, mass organizing, and citizen mobilization of the kind that we see only in America’s finest hours.”
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I would have preferred a more reflective, in-depth account of becoming a man in 2020, but Becoming A Man is an informative, fast, and fascinating read.
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What you will be impressed by is the strength of the interior thinking, the detailing of the voices sorting out their confusion.
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L. M. Brown knows there are certain questions in life that we just never get the answers to. Or dare to ask.
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Arts Remembrance: A Tribute to Poet and Writer John Ash
We were both English-speaking ex-patriots living in Istanbul, and John Ash’s poetry spoke eloquently to that shared experience.
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