Books
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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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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The 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll: The Institution Continues