Books
Diane Williams’s brusque vision of a perverse life force mesmerizes.
“I still remember; I sat in his class, and I felt my future changing as he spoke.”
This is a bewildering, frustrating, deeply weird novel, densely written and remarkably free of signposts.
The author’s combination of knowledge and experience has resulted in a boisterous chronicle of one of indie rock’s least probable but most luminous and unremitting stars.
Editor Heidi E. Erdrich has brought together a richly varied selection of poems, chosen from first collections of poetry written by twenty-one Native poets since the year 2000.
Leonard Cohen reinforces this dedication to lyricism with striking humility in his final book.
These extraordinary books from world-class writers are about reviving, through words, a now-derelict town and the lives of its ten thousand murdered Jews.
“I like implication very much; there’s a fiction of implication that I think I’ve championed over the fiction of explication.”
British historian Adam Zamoyski has drawn a portrait of Napoleon that is neither flattering nor diminishing.
Journalist Ian Nathan presents Peter Jackson’s trials in bringing Tolkien’s books to film as if he was writing a spy thriller.
The Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll at Mid-Year: Warming Up a Riff — How It Happened, and Why It Matters