Books
Once and For All asserts the value of Delmore Schwartz’s provocative and multifaceted literary legacy.
Read MoreMurray Talks Music shows how brilliant Albert Murray could be even when he didn’t have time to polish his prose.
Read MoreThere are resemblances to Virginia Woolf in Helen Dunmore’s awareness that much of family life lies in what is not said as much as in what is said.
Read MoreZero K will prove refreshing to Don DeLillo’s readers in that it’s a novel of faith — a concept that he’s always been skeptical of.
Read MoreJames Traub has admirably captured the man inside the public figure, giving us a complex view of a typical New England grandee.
Read MoreIf Owen Gleiberman has any complaint against today’s world of criticism it’s that everyone seems to be speaking in one voice.
Read MoreAudin scrutinizes political commitment when it is undertaken by representatives of an intellectual discipline detached from the real world.
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Literary Appreciation: “The Passion for the Thing” — An Argument for Writer Harry Crews
The Southern-inflected melee of Harry Crews’ universe is like a Hieronymus Bosch canvas dipped in whiskey and flour and deep-fried.
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