Books
Wherever Robert Hass is, the poet drinks in (and reports to us) the details of place and human activity.
Perhaps the book’s most impressive accomplishment is to make a kind of systematic case for Leonard Bernstein’s larger compositional output.
From the first page of Martha Ackmann’s new book on Emily Dickinson, you know you’re reading something entirely different.
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.
Carolynn Kingyens’s debut book of poems, Before the Big Bang Makes a Sound, reminds us of our everyday struggles.
Strange Hotel focuses on a woman’s life in middle age, suspended between the hollow satisfactions of memory and anxiety about the future.
Gish Jen’s new novel asks, Is ambition worthwhile in a world without justice?
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.
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.
Amina Cain’s style is unusual, and it may tow readers so rapidly through this brief novel they won’t look back.
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