Books
Set in Boston’s rock scene during the ’80s, the mystery World Enough serves up plenty of compelling entertainment.
Comparisons and guesses about influence aside, poet Richard Hoffman’s voice is individual, original, and strong.
Poet Rob Cook bends time and space at will, dispenses with natural laws when convenient, and shuffles sensory perception like a deck of cards.
The biography offers a fascinating look at Frances Coke Villiers’s tale of rebellion, the plight of a memorable woman during a tumultuous time.
Oscar Wilde’s life might have been tortured, but the writer never believed he had been disgraced, only rejected.
“As morality shifts,” NPR’s Ann Powers writes, “music does, too, helping people navigate those boundaries.”
Evidently, plain-spoken language plus doubt and apprehension equate to novels that, once opened, are very hard to put down.
“To me, ’67 was a year that was different from what came after it.”
Laurent Binet’s entertaining detective yarn is set in the harum-scarum social scene of French literary theory, philosophy, and politics.
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